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God is All Things. God is the Creator AND the Created. God is everything, everywhere. There is nothing that is not God. Life is All there is. That’s right; God and Life are the same thing. Death is not the Opposite of Life, it is a part of Life. Everything is a part of Life.
We would all have no problem accepting that we were created by Life and that we are part of Life and that Life flows through us and animates our being. But change the name to God and our “labelling” changes our perspective. We all have our conditioned ideas about what God is and how we should “approach” HIM.
All of Life is Creative. It works naturally without any effort. Plant a seed in the right conditions and it will grow without thinking about it or stressing over it. When the required parts of Life come together in Harmony, new Life is created and grows.
What is the smallest identifiable part of Life? Well, the smallest thing that science can observe, depends on how you look for it. You can see tiny particles of matter or you can see tiny waves of energy. What turns up is dependant on what you “planned” on looking for. The “same” thing can appear as matter or energy. It can change from one to the other. It can disappear and re-appear in a different place. It can appear in more than one place at the same time. These are all things that mystics have been telling us about how Life works for thousands of years. Now it has been observed and measured, at the smallest of scales.
We are constantly told that our thoughts create our experience. “Think and Grow Rich”; Think of what you want, not what you don’t want; Ask and it shall be given to you; In the beginning was the Word. Words are the tools of thought, even those that are not expressed verbally. Jesus “updated” the idea of the Ten Commandments by saying that even “thinking” of committing such acts was the same as actually committing them (paraphrased here). Our Thoughts are Things. They are Energy Waves and they move outwards into and throughout the substance of Life, affecting all of Life. They become the thoughts that other people receive and think in their own minds (just like radio waves are received and replayed in a radio). The stronger or more numerous the same kind of thought is, the greater affect it will have on the sub-conscious mind of Life.
Mind your thoughts, mind your words, mind your emotions.
Practice making all of these as “positive” as you can, it’s not always easy.
Thinking of You …
John Eyre
In the book, the next few Chapters (from 19, page 140) introduce a metaphor of an Apple-Orange to discuss the journey that we take through birth, physical life, physical death, through the Core of our Being into the Spiritual realm and back again, on a continual cycle of evolution. I think that this is such a good example, I would prefer that you take the time to get hold of the book and read it for yourselves.
We have covered most of the concepts here already, but the book is so well written, I don’t want to try to paraphrase it and I’m sure that you will gain so much from reading it.
In summary though – we visit the Spiritual Realm to remember and KNOW who we are and we come to the Physical Realm to EXPERIENCE what we know. We don’t have to die to make this happen, but dying is our sure-fired gift to get us there. However far we move away from who we really are, dying will bring us back.
In amongst the discussion in the book, we come across more Remembrances:
The Ninth Remembrance
It is the desire of All That Is to Know Itself in Its Own Experience. This is the reason for all of Life.
The Tenth Remembrance
Life is eternal.
The Eleventh Remembrance
The timing and circumstances of death are always perfect.
If you have seen the “Conversations with God” movie, you will remember the part when the distressed women, enters the bookshop where Neale is in discussion with a group of people. She asks him to explain why God allowed her son to die before she could meet her promise to him – this story is presented at page 174 and includes a beautiful poem written by the women.
This story leads us to the next remembrance …
The Twelfth Remembrance
The death of every person always serves the agenda of every other person who is aware of it. That is why they are aware of it. Therefore, no death (and no life) is ever “wasted”. No one ever dies “in vain.”
These 4 remembrances sum up how life works. Life is Eternal – that is, it exists in a “Timelessness” that never begins and never ends. This is not the same as something that goes on for a “long-time”. Eternity is not a “long-time”, it is timeless. When Life takes on a Physical form, it enters the realm of time and duality, or relativity. In this realm, we can experience our Self, in Relation to others, we can Inter-Act with other parts of Life. We Experience a part of Who We Are. Simply “Knowing” who we are is a limited-awareness that becomes solidified through experience. This creates a never ending evolutionary process driven and guided by Consciousness. This is the constant framework in which we Choose How to express and experience our own Individuation of this one thing – Life, or God.
Guided by our higher-self or our connection to the source, we come to be born at the appropriate “time and place” and “later” die again, at the appropriate time, place, and circumstance. The timing of both events is brought about by the “drive” of both the Individuation and that of the human Group Consciousness for the benefit and growth of both.
At the Group level, we all become aware of the birth and death of all human experience. However, at the individuation level, we may be aware of very few birth and death events and their impact on those people that take part. You don’t need to be directly part of an event in order to gain some experience from it. We have all been invited to a friends party and met someone that we didn’t know before. We chat and either straight away, or by strange coincidence, they begin to tell us of another friend whose mother just died of cancer, or whose sister just had a baby, or whose brother was just killed in Afghanistan. There seems to be no reason for this discussion but you exchange stories and feel the experience, even at this remote and distant level. You separate and move on with your individual lives, but now you have both changed a little. The death of the brother that you never knew has started something stirring inside you. It will change the direction of your life forever.
Each of these events ripples out to touch hundreds or thousands of lives and no one can know the impact that results. The greater the event, the more people that are effected.
I personally have a constant stream of impossible coincidences. For example, last night I had one and was wondering what the significance was. There appeared to be none, other than the “coincidence” itself, until I came to revisit my copy of “Home with God” ready to write this next story.
I live in Vancouver, BC, Canada. I moved here 5 years ago from Britain. I was a member of a motorcycle club and we would gather as a group and go on long rides, just for the sake of riding. Being “One” with the bike and the road and allowing the flow to take you in whatever direction it chooses, is a great feeling. Anyway, there was about a dozen of us in the original group. We met every week but didn’t really “know” each other, we would just ride and talk about bikes. Last night, I was trying to have a round of “pitch and put” golf, but when we arrived at the course, it was swarming with children and parents and trainers. These 5 and 6 year old kids were amazing. They played as if they knew exactly what was “supposed” to happen and no matter how strangely they swung their over-sized clubs, the ball would fly straight down the fairway and onto the green, something that our adult leverage and muscles couldn’t achieve with any consistency. It was a joy to see, but the 1.5 hour line-up meant that it wouldn’t be worth staying to try to play our own game.
When this kind of thing happens, I try to look for the benefit. What will appear next that meant I had to leave early. Well, nothing seemed to appear, but I was back at home early and my wife and I went out for a walk. We went in a direction and route that we would not normally take and we were enjoying being by the water front when I spotted a couple sitting on a bench looking out across the water. I thought “I know these people, but it is out of context, they shouldn’t be here”. It was like a flash-back. I stopped to say hello. We recognized each other but we still had to remind ourselves of names (we are getting quite old). They are on a group trip flying into Calgary, travelling over the Rockies, down to Vancouver and then flying back to the UK. And, here they are sitting on a bench just a few minutes walk from our condo (we haven’t had any contact for over 5 years).
The discussion soon turned to members of the old group and what they are up to. A few had died from cancer and other ailments but as is the way, some had been involved in bike accidents. One in particular had been “persuaded” by a couple of friends to take a different route home in order to ride together. During the ride, the leader overtakes a truck and the next rider pulls out to follow suite and runs into an on-coming van. By the time the ambulance arrives, the friend is pronounced died. When the ambulance man asks what the died mans name is and where he lives, the answer is typical – he’s Goaty Mike and lives in Coventry (this isn’t the actual name and place, but you get the idea. This is the Mike that has the goaty beard, not the Mike that wears the farmer-John leathers). These are friends with a common love – riding. They don’t get into each other lives and stories.
Just to show that for every coincidence that you experience with another person, that person is also in the experience. So, what was his story? Well, my friend had talked to this chap back at the club meeting just minutes earlier. He gives out the newsletters. The newsletter has the guys name and address on it and this was found in his pocket.
This experience still just seemed to be a coincidence “looking” for a “reason”, and may be that is all they are. However, I’ve seen so many and in the time I’ve been in Vancouver they have just become daily events. Anyway, when I go to sleep last night and when I wake-up this morning, I ask “my-Self” if there is anymore to the story. Am I supposed to have told my visitor friend something specific or given him something? I don’t know yet what the link is.
Now I’m thinking about what to write in this next Part of my “Home with God” review. I look back to where I was for Part 15 and note that I had skipped the story of Helen and Billy (as mentioned above) as I thought I was familiar with it – well, it is in my brain somewhere. Now I’m looking at Chapter 23 where it begins with the reminder that “the circumstances of every death is always perfect.” Neale doesn’t just accept what he is “told”, he questions that “Billy came here to experience being frustrated all of his life and then having to die in a motorcycle accident just to finally meet his mother? Come on!”
This is also where the Twelfth Remembrance is introduced.
I hadn’t remembered or thought about the method of Billy’s death, but it jumped out at me when I was helped to Re-Member it.
I haven’t bought a motorcycle while I’ve been in Vancouver, but I often think about the feeling of freedom and oneness with nature that you get from just riding and going with the flow. Why my old biker friend turned up here and how we managed to Coincide is not clear to me yet. Why this also tied up to the location in Home with God that I am writing about, I also don’t know. I wouldn’t normally write about my signs and pointers, so why I choose to write about this one here, I don’t know – Do You?
If I told you about the list of signs and pointers I have experienced while creating a board-game that I’m now testing with friends, you wouldn’t believe me. The Board is a Magick board design incorporating numbers and geometry, as well as words and symbols from some of the ancient wisdom teachings. The game is called Secret-Life “The Awareness Game” and naturally raises your conscious awareness while playing it. I hope to make it available to people, and together we will be able to explore the meanings locked inside, as we are currently doing with our “real” lives.
Ride in the Flow
John Eyre
You may wish to scroll down and review Part 5 – in the Art Gallery and take a look at my definitions of Truth, Time, Life etc in Part 4.
If you have been following the Oprah webinar discussions with Eckhart Tolle you will know about being in the “Now”. The Present moment is all there is. The Left Brain (and the EGO Mind) creates the illusion of Time Passing by us. The Ego is focused on the Past and the Future and creates guilt over what happened in the “past” and worry, anxiety and fear over what “might” happen in the “future”, even though the past has gone and we never experience the future, except in our Imaginations – right Now. When we focus on the present and provide a “Space” in our Mind to experience the present (by quietening the voice in our head), we recognise that we are not our thoughts. We can observe them and direct them and still them, but only when we take conscious action. Otherwise the relentless chatter continues.
Time is something that we move through and experience, it is not something that flows over us, even if that is how it appears. As we sit quiet in a chair, we can feel that time is passing by. May be we even feel that we are “wasting” time, like there is a shortage of it. Even as we sit in the chair, we are still moving through time. Our heart is beating, breath is moving in and out, cells are being born and dying, hair and finger nails are growing. At each moment, things are changing. At each present, we experience ourselves in a different position in time. All possibilities exist all of the time, but we get to choose which version to experience. Sitting in the chair we can choose to look out of the window, to look at the television, to look at the wall. We can use our imagination to contemplate another part of time, either past or future, or another part or space by visualizing ourselves in another place. At any moment we can experience any part of time and space.
When you quiet your mind and begin to recognise that you are not your thoughts and not your body and that there is something else that is the “observer” of these things that you are using, you begin to know that you are the “space” where time exists and where you have chosen to experience who you are through the use of a physical body.
The Space that “you” are is also the Space that “I” am. It is also the Space that “God” is. This is the place where “We Are All One”. When we come to this place, we feel our Oneness with All of Life, as Life is All There Is. We are a part of Life, experiencing Life through Life. We are like the finger on the Hand of God, moved by God, in Harmony with every other part of the body of God (all the other Individual parts – recognised here as “other” people, animals, plants etc). We are Individual parts of the One thing, which is Life, or God.
On page 134 of “Home with God”, Neale summarizes this as follows:
“We are the individuation of the singularity experiencing life sequentially simultaneously”.
It is everyone “Purpose” to Re-Member this and to experience it. This is the Purpose of All of Life. You can choose HOW to do this in every moment. The result will be a raising of your own consciousness and the consciousness of Humanity as a whole. As the Finger on the Hand of God learns to express itself to its fullest, it brings Joy to the rest of the Body of God.
I wish you every success in feeling the Joy
John Eyre
One incite is that Death can be Exciting, just as Life can be – after all, they are the same thing. The phase of life after the body dies is not limited by the same physical restrictions that we face on Earth. What you believe can create your experience much quicker and easier. It is therefore important not to restrict your experience to the stories you have been told by other people. Don’t die thinking that you are certain what will happen to you. Ask for whatever good is possible to come to you, and allow all potential to be available.
If you are sure that “nothing” exists after death, that is what you will experience – nothing, like being asleep on earth. Things are still going on around you, but you are asleep to them. Many people are in this state on earth, even while they appear to be awake and moving around.
The drive of life is to be “conscious”, aware, energized, growing, moving, dynamic, interacting. You can not stay asleep forever. Sooner or later you will wake up, just as you do after a nights sleep. There are always other people around you, tending to your needs, waiting for you to return to awareness.
Once you understand that you are no longer in your physical body but still “alive”, you will begin to create new experiences for yourself. You can create anything that comes to mind. This will simply be yet another projected “reality” made up from your imagination, just like on Earth, but faster and without the physical restrictions and reactions. You can not suffer during this process, you are simply creating mental imagery, like in a dream. You may even experience the presence of God, but whether or not you believe it is up to you. Just as on Earth, God is there, but you may not recognise her. Here is a quote from the book:
“If you look into the eyes of another and know that God is there, you will see God there. Otherwise, you will see nothing more than another human being. You may even see a villain.”
Whatever you Desire, whatever you HOPE for, will be given to you.
On page 115 there is a “100 word formula for all of life”, that begins with Hope (get the book and take a look).
But what about the people that don’t have any “hope”. Those that live in fear, feel that they aren’t worthy, that they deserve to be judged and punished for something. How do these people manage on the other side of Life?
After death there is no pain or suffering. This is true even if you believe it is not. Even if you insist on creating an experience of burning in hell, you will not suffer. As soon as your Soul decides that the experience is not Desirable anymore, it will be gone. The Soul already understands that suffering is not desirable, so your Will to create suffering will not be allowed to produce it.
Once the Soul comes to realize that the body is no more and the thinking mind is no more, it will be released from preconceived restrictions created by the perspective of these physical conditions and naturally move to the next stage of awareness.
What is this next level of awareness and how long will it take before it happens?
You begin to merge with the essence at the core of your being and experience who you really are. When? All at the same time! In the non-physical experience, time does not exist in the way that we understand it. I have discussed TIME in earlier Parts, but we will look at it again as it relates to multi-dimensional realities and how we “live” in them “Sequentaneously” – sequentially and simultaneously (as “Home with God” explains it).
Life “After” Death is just like Life “Before” Death, but with no restrictions and no suffering. Wouldn’t that be a good experience to have? Is it true though? What do “You” think?
Don’t “think” too hard – you need to “feel” something.
John Eyre
Chapter 13 begins where we left off in Part 12:
“Objective observation is impossible. Nothing which is observed is unaffected by the observer.”
It talks about perspective, perception and belief and the outcomes that they lead to.
Applying this to our ideas of death, we may believe in “Life After Death”, but Life is all there is, and death has no effect on it. If we believe in the world of opposites, then Death is the opposite of Birth, not Life. Life and Death are not opposites. We are born into the physical world and we die back out of it. They are both parts of the same experience.
This leads to the Seventh Remembrance, page 89:
“Death does not exist.”
If you believe that death exists, you will experience that it does. This comes from your perception and from your perspective. But, it doesn’t make it so. It just makes you think it is so.
And, the Eighth Remembrance, page 91, is:
“You cannot change Ultimate Reality, but you can change your experience of it.”
The book as us to think of similar situations in our lives where we may have had very different reactions to them. For example, being out in the rain or snow, being at a party, loosing something valuable, a loved one dying, being alone. Was the experience perceived as happy or sad, positive or negative, depressing or joyous? What was the difference in the similar events? Was it simply an attitude or perception of that specific time and place? Can you be happy while walking in the rain? Can a loved one dying be a happy release or just a natural stage of life? You get to choose.
The point is that you can’t change the way that things have turned up right now, they are already the way they are, the event is now in the past. You can however, change the way you react to these events and situations. You can change your perspective at any time. What would make you do that? Are you even open to allowing that to happen?
As with all experience, what you believe about it, will determine how you perceive it, when it happens. What you expect death to be like will be your experience of it, even if that is not the “nature” of it. Only when you can see that the experience you are having is not the one you would choose, can that experience change.
Chapter 14 gets in to the question of what happens to us after we die.
“Hell does not exist. There simply is no such place.”
Everyone on earth lives on the same earth. We are surrounded by the same natural laws and the same kinds of resources. We have the same instincts and the same drives. We need the same things in order to survive. However, our personal experiences of life on earth are both wide and varied. We can experience a “Hell on Earth” or a “Heaven on Earth”. Although we don’t see exactly how this happens, at some level of our Self, we choose to experience things the way they turn up.
When we die, the first thing we come to “know” is that we are still “alive”, though not restrained by our body. After that, our existing perspective will continue to drive the experiences that we have and whatever we believe will happen, will happen. Without the limitations of the physical body, our imagination can create any kind of situation immediately. Even though there is no place called “Hell”, we can create the experience of being there and have that experience for as long as we choose.
Just as there was no place on Earth that you needed to “Go” in order to experience your living Hell, there is no such place after death. But, you can still think there is.
Why would “God” allow me to create an eternal hell for myself if he knows that there is no such place? How could he let us suffer in such a way?
God simply provides the mechanism and the power for you to experience whatever you “say” you want, in whatever way you “say” you want it. You choose. You don’t have to actually “say” what you want and how you want it. Your vibration attracts it to you. Whatever you vibrate is what you get more of. You can say one thing while vibrating another. You can “pretend” to be friendly, sympathetic, giving, honest, while you actually act the opposite. What you experience creates your vibration and what you vibrate creates your experience. It takes an act of Faith, Will, and Grace to change the way you behave (or react) and therefore the experience you have and then the vibration you feel, in order to break-out of conditioned thinking. It requires “Awakening”.
Even after death, you can still be “living” from your conditioned mind. The vibration is imprinted into every part of your being. It isn’t lost when your brain decays away. You take who you are wherever you go. It is the only thing that you keep. It is the only thing that is ultimately worth working on while you are alive.
Our task while on Earth is to understand Who We Really Are and to grow our Awareness of that essence.
Happy Growing.
John Eyre
Most Religions and Spiritual Teachings agree that whatever it is that they think “God” is, it is the All Powerful, All Seeing, Creator of Everything. There is Nothing that is Not God. That God created “Man” in his own “image”.
If God created everything and is everything there can be no “other”, no “out-there”, no separation between one thing and the next. Things only “appear” to be separate from our own limited perspective.
“God creates all of life, and you create all of your life”.
Without God, we do not have the power to live. Without life, God’s power is not made manifest. God is manifested through life itself. This is his Joy and our Joy.
“The presence of the wave is evidence of the existence of the ocean. Your presence is evidence of the existence of God”.
In the relatively short period of time that “man” has been creating “things” with his limited perspective, how has that creative faculty developed? Are we getting “better”? Are the things we create starting to look more like life itself? Are “we” creating things in our image (may be even our view of God)?
If you and God are one, then you and I are one, and you and your enemy are one.
If you and God are one, then there is nothing that you need, nothing that you are missing, nothing that you have to do, no where that you have to go and no one you have to please, not even God.
We are said to have Free Will, but many people don’t experience that they do. They feel that their lives are being dictated by other people or that the day-to-day struggle is what creates their experience. You can sit in a room on your own, and with nothing more than your thoughts, you can create the feeling of happiness or sadness, despair or joy, inside you. When you realise that you have this power within and that you can change your feeling by simply changing your thoughts and your perception of those thoughts, you are ready to take control of your life. What you believe, is all important. What you believe about yourself, can set your free.
Three people can be watching the same event. One thinks that he sees a Spiritual Master performing a miracle cure. The second thinks he sees a Master Magician performing a skilful trick and the third person thinks he sees a con-man taking advantage of the crowd. The event was always the same event, but the beliefs and perspectives of the three viewers create completely different ideas and feelings within them. Which view was correct? This is the thing that people have difficulty with. Whose view of the world is correct? If you and I can have different understandings of the same event, how can we agree on what the truth is?
We could film the event and take the film to a “judge” and ask her to decide for us. Having looked at the evidence and listened to the various positions, she may determine that it was a magic show, but it was being done for the benefit of the “believers” and therefore it was not something to be “punished”. How would this “judgement” affect our first three observers. May be it would just upset all of them and now we simply have a fourth view of the same event. No truth was determined by this “judgement”, it was simply another perspective added to the list of possible explanations.
What I believe, is what I will see, even if I am as “open-minded” and “impartial” as a judge.
Therefore, there are two possible ways to view the world we live in and the way people interact with it. Either, everything is True or everything is un-True. “What’s that?”, I hear you say, “can’t everything just be mostly true, or true as far as we can understand, or true from the perspective of the person performing the act, or a mixture of true and un-true”?
If you believe in the true/un-true story, you will be continually looking out-there for the “Real Truth”. The version that isn’t tainted by the observer, and there isn’t such a thing. Everything is changed by the observer.
There is an “Ultimate Truth”, but it consists of the addition of everyone’s perception of every event. You can not even understand one other person’s perception of even one event, not even if you are identical twins, so trying to look at an idea or event, to determine the truth that everyone will understand and accept equally, is futile. This is why you should not judge another person or any situation that turns up in your experience. Judging is the attempt to impose your perception on to other people and this can not work (at least not for long). Everyone acts out their lives based on who they believe they are and for most people, this was “given” to them by their parents, their teachers and their culture.
Only when we “choose” to recognise that we are living unconsciously, living our lives automatically, based on our conditioning, can we begin to awaken. This is our choice.
Everyone is doing the best they can with what they were given. Anti-social and un-conscious behaviour requires our understanding and compassion, not our judgement.
To get back to the theme in the book. You and God are one. Decisions made by you are also decisions made by God, and vice-versa. At some level of your own being, you choose everything in your life, including your death (which is only a change in state, not an ending of life). This is The Absolute Truth, at least from my Perspective. It may not be from yours, and that’s OK. It doesn’t make either of us wrong and shouldn’t cause either of us any conflict. However, if you find that it does, you should look into who you are and ask why that feeling is arising in you – there will be a reason.
Be Happy, All Ways
John Eyre
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Given that Dr Darcy raised the issue of “Suicide” and the fact that the next chapter in Home with God (Chapter 10) also addresses the topic, let us take a look at what it says:
“Causing something and consciously Choosing it, can be two entirely different things.”
“You can be the Cause of an accident, but that does not mean that you consciously Choose it.”
We are all “at cause” in everything that we do and experience in our lives, including the time and manner of our death. For the majority of people, they are not consciously aware of this fact and so do not “experience” it to be true. Their perspective and therefore perception does not include that possibility. This does not mean that it is not true, but it does mean that they would not believe it.
For Suicide to be completed, the person must first be aware of what they are doing and making a conscious choice to do it. They must also be doing it for the purpose of “escape”. They believe that they can remove themselves from a situation that is causing them stress or discomfort and that death will lead to a release or even a more positive outcome.
Death is Not an Escape. Death is a doorway, a tool, a transforming event, an opportunity, but it does not provide a way for you to avoid looking at who you are. On the contrary, you will know again, who you really are and wish to return to physical form to experience that essence, to bring the consciousness of God through you into the world.
Having committed suicide, you will not be judged or punished but will naturally return to the physical world to relive the life you just removed yourself from, but from the beginning. As in “Life” you can not push yourself away from a situation that you do not like. The act of pushing creates resistance that is equal to any force that you can muster. Fighting against something does not make it go away. Even if it appears to subside for a while, that thing will return with power. This is something that humanity has not learned yet, but it is beginning to understand.
There will be no change in Who You Are, once you step through the door of death. Life and Death are the same thing. In death, you will continue to “Be” who you are. The realm of the physical is a manifestation of consciousness created in order to experience itself. We are moving towards a “time” when more people will become Aware of their own consciousness and create Space between their ego mind and their thoughts. Be quiet, and know that I AM there.
Suicide is not good or bad, wrong or right. You will not gain or loose by it. You will be loved through the event as you are through every choice you make and hardship that you face. The thing to remember is, nothing is more important than Life, no one is more important than you, no problem is insurmountable, nothing matters enough to be concerned about, everything is OK, let it go, LET IT BE.
Here’s a poem inspired by Home with God. I hope you like it:
Spirit Whispers
Spirit whispers to the mind
Its soul intention to be kind
A friend, a guide, a part that knows
When it’s asked it always shows
The way Home
Spirit whispers through the space
Mind focused on the race
Taught to take and live in fear
Far to busy, doesn’t hear
Where is Home
Spirit whispers in the wind
Tells you, you never sinned
There’s nothing you need to do
I’ll always Love You
You are Home
Spirit whispers from afar
Reminds you who you are
One with All and All in One
Separation is all gone
Now you’re Home
Spirit whispers from on high
From inside, not in the sky
There is no path you need to walk
I bring the light to clear the dark
Welcome Home
Spirit whispers to me now
I would have listened, if I knew how
I’m getting old, it’s not too late
How it works, it can’t be fate
That brings me Home
Spirit whispers constantly
Always trying to speak to me
I quieten down and listen in
Then I Re-Member where I’ve been
All Ways Home
Enjoy Life
John Eyre
In the last couple of texts, we have talked about the idea that our Soul might have a “mission” or goal or plan and that when that mission is fulfilled, which it always will be, the Soul is ready to “force” the body to expire.
In short, the idea is that at some level, we choose when and how to die and that it is always after our work is complete.
A few people may be aware of their mission and even be happy and ready to die at the appropriate time. But, our experience is that the vast majority of people are not consciously aware of any specific mission or task that they need to accomplish. Neither are they aware that the task may have been completed and they can now pass away content in their understanding of this. And, why would you want to pass away, even if your mission was completed? There’s plenty more that could be accomplished.
The suggested reasoning for this is that we have three levels of Consciousness and we create everything in our lives at one level or another. The three levels are well known, as every one will have heard of their consciousness and their Subconscious (that drives the things that go on underneath the surface, the automatic processes that make our bodies work and allow us to react quickly to events without thinking). That’s two, and the third is also well known, at least by name if not by experience. We have the idea of a “higher” consciousness or Superconscious. We think that there is probably some part of us that is “nearer” to God or has a greater wisdom or is closely aligned with our Soul. This is where inspiration and spontaneous creative insight come from – you wake up in the night with a poem, a story or song in your mind, for example.
We think that we create at our conscious level. You know, we sit down and think of something then write it down or draw it or make it, all while we are wide awake. We conceive an idea in our mind then plan how to make it come to life.
What about our subconscious mind? Does that create anything? It certainly performs hundred or thousands of functions. It keeps our heart beating, our lungs breathing our cells dividing and every movement we make is accomplished by our subconscious mind. It would simply be unimaginable to consciously think the functions required to make your hand and all the associated muscles work together to raise a glass of water to drink. As a baby, you might have gone through a long process to master these bodily functions, but once mastered, they become automatic, like driving a car or riding a bike.
How about the Superconscious then? Is that creating anything? May be you don’t even believe that there is a superconscious. However, this is the faculty that has access to all knowledge. It is your link to God, or whatever you recognise as the Universal Source. It knows everything, but like God, has no agenda. It needs nothing and only responds when asked. If you never communicate with it, it won’t be upset, but you will be missing out on the one true source of all knowledge. Not only knowledge, but energy. It is through the superconscious that energy flows, through you, to earth. You only need to ask it, then it will Inspire, Encourage, Drive and Energize your creative mind. Through dreams, by bringing people or situations to you, by playing just the right music at the right time, by showing you a situation, these are the ways that your superconscious can put you where you say you want to be.
There is a fourth level that “Home with God” talks about and that is the Supraconscious or Christ Conscious. This is when all three cylinders are firing together. When all your conscious levels of being are working together in harmony, you can move mountains.
Where does this leave us, where is the creation taking place?
The suggestion is that creation can take place at all four levels. Creation is said to follow the sequence – Think, Speak, Do (Thought, Word, Deed). It might sound like you can only do these three things at the conscious level. They are all physical things that need you to be engaged and active in order to accomplish them. If this were true, you would have to be aware of everything that you created in your life. Do you think that you might have created something without being consciously aware of it? Is that possible?
This raises the question, what is creation? What can I create? It’s pretty obvious that I can “make” things – a chair, a pie, a piece of art, a song, a joke, someone cry – wait a moment, I can “make” someone cry? Can you make someone laugh or be happy? What about angry or sad or fearful? Would I always be fully aware that I did any of these things? Could they happen at “arms-length” without me even being present. If someone looks at a photograph of me and smiles, is that something that I am creating, and at what level?
Do I know where this discussion is going? I don’t. I don’t have the end in mind. I haven’t thought it all the way through, before I started writing it. I trust that somewhere inside me, or at a distance that I can reach, there is a thread of wisdom that I can pull on.
We can make someone else laugh or be happy. How would we do that? They have to agree to it. They join in. They take their role in the process. They are willing participants. You Choose to be Happy, or otherwise. In every moment, you decide whether or not any particular event is going to be experienced as a happy or sad situation. Irrespective of the outward circumstances, you can choose to always be happy. You can laugh at your own misfortunes.
If this is the case, then no one else can make you feel any particular way, against your will. So, you decide how you will feel in any situation. You pick your reactions and responses. What about the actual situations themselves? How do you find yourself in “good” or “bad” situations? Do you have a hand in creating these as well?
If a women keeps “choosing” to associate with the same negative and aggressive men, even though they treat her badly, then she is probably creating that kind of environment for herself. This can easily be recognised, if not overcome.
However, to take a more extreme case. What if you are killed by “friendly” fire while driving your tank through a war zone. Or you are sitting at home and a bomb drops on your house. Or you are driving down the highway and a truck coming the other way crosses the centre line and runs in to you. And the list goes on. You have to be able to trace a complex web of interconnecting branches to be able to see how these things might have been influenced by your own Self for your own Good. When you can see that We Are All One, this starts to be possible. But, I understand that most people are not going to look to themselves for a reason or cause under these kinds of circumstances.
Even more interesting and complex situations occur when something like a plane crashes and all but one person dies, or someone decides not to get on the fatal plane, or a person is delayed by the accident on the highway and misses the fatal plane. You can accept all these things as pure chance, it’s just “one of those things”, inexplicable, these people were just “lucky”. However, while I don’t necessarily think that everything happens for a “Purpose”, everything does happen for a “Reason”. Purpose implies that there is a plan, a reason only requires a “cause” and everything has a cause. Even New thoughts, which happen rarely, are only possible because of the millions of previous old thoughts that have been practiced in a particular order by a particular mind. New Life Evolution occurs when an Environment changes significantly. It never just happens for no reason.
If you can’t accept that you are at cause in all that comes to you, lets look at an example that will allow you to accept that if You Don’t Choose, Someone Else Will –
You need a job. You aren’t very creative and you don’t like taking responsibility, so you ask a friend that works in a factory, if they can get you an interview there. You are successful in the interview but the job is on the production line and you haven’t done that before. You spend the first week learning the tasks. This is quite complicated and you make many errors before managing the task adequately. You are still very slow and don’t produce the required level of output, but you expect that with practice you will.
This is a very typical situation. You have reduced any choice of work environment to the easiest option, the one that your friend has. You accept whatever the employer has to offer you, even though you know you don’t have the skills yet. You have to train your subconscious to be able to carry out the tasks without your conscious input (otherwise things go wrong, you slow down and don’t earn enough). You hate the job and after 3 weeks you have an accident with one of the machines. You sue the company.
Who caused your accident? Why were you unhappy? Did your Soul find you the job? Was it the job of your “dreams”? Was it your “destiny” or your “mission” to work there and eventually have the accident? The accident may well prove to move you forward to great things and when you look back you may say it all happened “as it was meant to”, but was there a “purpose” and a plan and did you follow it?
One way to expand your potential is to learn to lower your conscious mind to be able to communicate with your subconscious and become aware of the power available in automating what you want and not what you don't want. Another path is to raise your consciousness to connect with the superconscious that is the source of inspiration, where miracles arise. A better strategy is to expand your consciousness to touch both upper and lower levels of consciousness at the same time, creating a "oneness" within, which then helps you see the Oneness outside.
To summarize with a quote from the book – p58:
“Therefore, think only what you choose to experience, say only what you choose to make real, and use your mind to consciously instruct your body to do only what you choose to demonstrate as your highest reality. This is how you create at the conscious level.”
Happy Thinking
John.
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Lunching with Leadership
The Group of 1000 in the UK by Shalini Ajoodha
Group of 1000 members come from all walks of life, their backgrounds rich and varied, their education diversely beautiful and their colours of skin amalgamated within the harmony of oneness. There is a rich silky softness present whenever members of the Group gather, as if a sheet of pure brilliance enfolds them, bringing them and their purpose closer to the ground they travel through.
It was a beautiful Saturday in January 2008 when part of the Group gathered, the sometimes harsh British winds were somewhat silenced, the sky gave its best blue colour and the sun skipped through clouds to bless us with the joy it brings. Members travelled in to London from hundreds of miles away, their dedication and commitment to being with G1K warming the hearts of those who live closer. The air carried anticipation for everyone present. This was our first Group gathering outside of the wonderful G1K conferences held with Neale. This was the first opportunity for G1K members based in the UK to meet other UK members. This lunch signified the beginning of many singular but related events involving the Group of 1000, across the world for years to come.
As the clock struck twelve, members started to pour through the door, each person bringing their own light into the room. Each felt the presence of “beingness” held in the room, and there was a gentle willingness to openly smile and look into another person’s eyes without hesitation. There was an unspoken comfort at being in a room where any feelings, thoughts or views on “Spirituality” could be voiced and accepted without ridicule or mock. And for me personally there was wonderful personal fulfilment at witnessing the values of G1K alive and beautiful in the room, values and actions we sometimes shy away from fully expressing in the material world such as love and its togetherness, unity and its compassion, comradeship and its oneness.
There were moments during that lunch, I looked around me and wondered what it really signified for me. As I completed my speech my last few words (“…The Universe is our playground where we can create change, and see the changes, we wish to experience in our lifetime…”) brought a new level of everlasting truth home, and as I looked around at my wonderful UK members I did not see genders, or skin colours, I did not see differences, all I saw were Leaders, and all I felt was the presence of Leadership.
I (personally) believe very deeply in a concept called “Servant Leadership”. My definition of this is where individuals lovingly stand as Leaders with purpose and vision, as opposed to status and fame. Where Leaders develop by “being” as opposed to “doing”, and where the excellence and presence of a Group lies within individual strengths such as courage, self-discovery, inward reflection, vision and inspiration, to name a few. And it is for those reasons, as I looked around the room that sunny day in London all I saw were Leaders. Members who were committed to a cause larger than themselves and experienced themselves, their wholeness through that cause. Members who feel that fundamentally the world is connected and that unity is key to raising awareness of that connection. Leaders who know that long lasting deeply impacting change takes time to manifest in the world, but one by one hand by hand soul by soul the vision we are part of IS manifesting at this very moment and is surely coming to be.