Showing posts with label illusion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label illusion. Show all posts

Thursday, October 30, 2008

Time Travel

We can only know ourselves in relationship to the present moment. How we act, feel and think in the reality of the moment reveals a part of us, which is primarily the ego. Our gestures, words, and expressions in our moment to moment relationship with life are the mirror in which we can see ourselves. If we are endlessly becoming something regardless of what it is, we are never fully present are we? The present is either filled with thoughts about the past or hopes and dreams for the future.

We are masters of time travel. We either are looking back or thinking about future realities. This is the way most people think and feel. People are seldom in the present. Sometime, take a few minutes of quiet time and watch where your mind goes. What lives in the present is your spirit, the higher Self. This is one of the many reasons so many of us meditate. Absolute quiet is one method of feeling the present. Breath work, chanting mantras and looking at a candle are other methods used in rediscovering and living from the perspective of the higher eternal Self.

Because we divide life into past, present and future, reality is not fully understood. There are some people who teach that neither the past, present or future are reality. They claim it is all one big illusion. I disagree with them. The illusion is in believing that only what we see, feel, hear and know with our senses is the one and only reality. What we experience in a physical body in a material world is very real while we are in it. Try and tell someone who doesn't have food to eat or is in extreme pain or fear that they are living an illusion. An illusion is the ongoing process of becoming something we judge we are not and not understanding our spiritual identity. Time traveling back and forth in the mind is primarily a focus on the personality and not the real Self.

Tuesday, February 5, 2008

Purpose of Life

From my understanding, which is fully supported by mystics and masters, is that we are here on earth to bring spirit into matter, light into ignorance, which some people call darkness. We are programmed to achieve self-mastery. This is easier said than done. To do our job right, we must have laid a solid foundation that is supported by clarity and understanding, love and wisdom. What is it that we need to understand? We need to seek balance and identify and recognize, accept and be the higher Nature while entrapped in the flesh and ruled for the most part by the lower nature.

Because the collectivity does not recognize the truth of its own nature, spirit temporarily using form, we are basically captive in our own creation. When the thinking mind is deluded, illusion is in charge. We accept falsity, conditioning, lack, limitation and harmful judgments as our reality. We create nonsense and experience fear and a sense of separation from our Divine Source because we have forgotten the reality left behind. So, how do we move from a straight line to a curve? How do we awaken from a deadening slumber to an awakened state of mind? How do we stop being robotic and behaving like sheep? We must understand the balancing act and how to walk the talk.

In the days ahead, I will simply express not only what I have discovered but what works to make a soul feel free again. There is nothing really new. We probably have heard, read or experienced almost every possibility at one time or another. What is really needed is a nudge in the right direction so we stay with it. Even though a human may not yet realize the truth that everyone has the same reason for being here in the flesh as well as the same assignment, the memory has to be jogged once in awhile. Why drag on the process of remembering? Why continue to suffer? Why don't we simply be who we really are and get on with it?