Soul Searching

Right now, during the holidays, it is a perfect time to do deep soul searching. I read another blogger's comments several days ago and was quite impressed. She used the word 'certain and 'divinity' in a statement that asked whether we felt we were certain of our divinity. This is a powerful question to ask yourself and would be very helpful if asked periodically throughout the day. At least, this is my opinion. When you delve deeply into this question of certainty, it brings up many other questions and issues.

Most people regardless of their spiritual leanings hope for a better year. Now, with the economy as it is, ongoing wars and many good people without a job, how can anyone hold onto today's catch phrase, "Yes, we can?" Hope is the salve but we still need to deliberately with perseverance take action. It reminds me of the time when I was fifteen years old and visited Southern California with my family. One day, we went to the Farmer's Market and was enticed to go over and get a palm reading by a woman sitting off by herself. She told me at that impressionable age that I was a very old and wise soul. At that time of life, I had no idea of what that actually meant. I never forgot how she looked at me and what she said. What I realized later in life was that the palm reader was not speaking to a fifteen year old girl but to my soul. She was alerting my soul to infinite possibilities that I may not have thought of if she had not been so blunt and seemingly impressed by the lines in my hands.

People and things happen to us during our life that serve as red flags, reminders of contrasts between a higher reality and the temporary drama that we are caught into in this moment. Yes, we can do anything that we dream of but our love and belief, trust and action must do something to make it so. What we can do right now at the end of another year is ask ourselves if we are certain about our divinity. Once you decide one way or another it is then up to you to decide what you are going to do about your certainty. I accepted that I was indeed a very old soul and took this to mean that I had a hidden reservoir of knowledge and direct experience to draw upon when needed. I also believe we are all old souls. It is just that some people don't think, care, bother and know with a certainty that there is a glorious inner ancient splendor waiting to surface brilliantly once again as wisdom and selfless love, our true identity.

An Open Vision

Why not have an open vision every day? With more Light present on earth at this time of change, greater good will be available to souls who care. There is nothing new in the area of truth because truth actually had no beginning. The fact is...more of us are awakening to something good that is beyond the physical senses. As we unfold, we have clearer vision and wider spheres of action. Let the spirit within be your only guide.

The work that needs to be done within is far greater than outside teachers and influences. Many people do not spiritually expand in their understanding and creative ability because they harbor lack of forgiveness for self and others. Perhaps, you will take the time to contemplate the fact that falsity of any form is connected with the outer self of the senses. Sin and falsity belong to accepting division and chaos.

It is said that sin forgiven is the end of sin but not the end of its results. We can change the results of suffering and turn them into good by lifting our own consciousness and then living with an attitude of respect and love for all life.
To experience love one must be ready and yes, obedient. Most people shrink from the idea of obedience. I am referring to the impulses that you receive from the eternal higher part of you, the eternal Self. Listen to it. Love it. Respect it and start living it in a grander way. A higher love is part of our true Nature. When we love fully without judgment or conditions, the inner Christ of us will display its amazing power and presence.

An Opinion about Jesus, the Christ

A blessed holiday to those of you who seek the consciousness of a Christ Mind. This is the Mind that comprehends. To be the supreme man and have at last an enlightened consciousness is slowly dawning in every heart. Humanities understanding has been childlike. Jesus tried in his own way to teach us that the higher understanding is putting Christ on the throne within us. This means accepting our own spirit identity, our own ability to live the inner truth and express the higher power in matter. I believe that is what Jesus meant when he said, when you see me, you see the Father. There is only One expressing in the many.

Jesus tried to help people understand that it is the inner power, the Christ of each one of us, who reveals to man his birthright. God-Man Christ is all in all. The Fall from this understanding is a false understanding and it is still going on today.
People continue to suffer because they have chosen a divided consciousness of good and evil. There really is only one consciousness; it is deep within all the time.

Jesus, in my opinion, did what he could for the times and the people to help them shake off the shadow of ignorance. The idea is for us to become aware as we live in the shadow. Once we really grasp the reality of the true life, the solution to life becomes obvious. We can then with confidence express the greater capacities for a Christ Consciousness while in matter. Why not look at the new year, 2009, as an opportunity to remove the veil and mentally set in motion the healing currents and dwell in the higher knowledge and wondrous love? Let us stop being content to live in the shadow and pain.

Know the God within, the Christ that waits recognition, and thou shall BE.

Call to Growth

Here it is another holiday season. It is particularly enjoyable with the snow and the wild animals making their way to our patio. A smorgasbord is waiting for them. My canary who is placed right near the sliding door always lets me know when the 'wild' ones arrive. I love to write and to share deep thoughts with you although it is easy to feel wholly inadequate when attempting to convey spiritual truths. I have been in mistaken conditions and it consciously took me a long time to fully accept that the form we call ourselves is in essence a remote distant likeness to our real Self.

This is why I write and teach...to give you hope and an understanding of who we really are. It is said that no poet can give you his true poem; I believe it. Perhaps, you feel like I do and yearn to be a greater likeness of the Christ spirit.
Growth is simply an expansion of consciousness, remembering and then living the marvelous being that we really are. Heaven is not a place, but an awareness of the Absolute One, the Creator of All. What happens is that we gradually become filled with an all-pervading love. So here we are in matter relearning how to allow a higher love to fulfill itself through us.

The most difficult part of the journey in my opinion is to accept our own divinity.
Millions of us are in different stages of bondage and yet, the door is always open.
I began long ago by being obedient to the impulses of the spirit within. This is not easy because it takes a clear discernment and determination to be able to really know what is a true intuitive thought and what is the lower nature desiring to control. Falsity imitates reality. Many souls worship the Supreme Spirit through Jesus, the Christ.
We require human examples. What he tried to convey to us has appeared to failed in many ways because humanity is still blind, deaf and dumb to the ancient wisdom teachings. It is a very challenging time right now on the material level. Perhaps, if more of us would raise our mind and heart from the deepest darkness and allow illumination to arise, the radiant Light would spread quickly. Walk by the spirit of truth. Keep your heart full of gratitude and love not to whatever you visualize as God but to all men, all life forms. Remember the familiar phrase, Awake thou that sleepest? I bow to the Christ who dwells in you.

Words Fail Us in More Ways Than One

Another day of heavy snow in our area. It reminds me of the various covers we wear over our intelligence and soul. The snow plows will arrive in the afternoon and then tomorrow or another day the covering begins all over again. It has been said repeatedly throughout time that the more the thinking conscious mind strives to express in words, the Supreme One's Idea, the greater and more abject the failure.
Why? Because that which is Science, ideas beyond human consciousness, cannot be expressed purely from the point of the human personality.

Our awakening is a step by step science. When science is coupled with selfless love and devotion to the Source behind the appearance, we get somewhere in the area of true understanding. A strange thing happens to us when we return to the Garden. When the physical personality is subdued and the impersonal spirit breaks through, we tend to be both impersonal in our approach to life and very compassionate and understanding of the stories of others. To be conscious and survive in our earthly mission, it became necessary for us to enter into all conditions of Earth life. To achieve the Idea behind creation, it was necessary to develop a thinking mind and a body capable of expressing the intent of our Creator.

This is a big order because descending souls usually lose sight of their purpose in being in flesh. It is like we are all near-sighted. If we lose the sight that can see the Soul of things, confusion reigns. So, we wear imperfect lenses until the day that the Light begins to shine again on the shadowy mist. According to mystic studies, this condition had to happen for the soul to continue its return to matter. Of course, when the soul forgets, it loses confidence, becomes confused and every type of deception and falsity surfaces. This is the process that is necessary to evolve a human mind and will, a body that will have the strength to eventually return to the Divine Idea. This is devolution and evolution, which eventually lead to BE. To understand the words I write, you must open the higher part of Mind and leap from a human sense of self to the eternal True Self.

So...Here We Are In Form

Humanity left the perfect consciousness and the subtle realms in order to create a physical body and eventually develop it into a vehicle that could again express divinity but in the flesh. This is not so strange when you think of the many ways we create beauty and magic in our daily lives. We also create hardship, loss and limitation through our forgetfulness of purpose. But, the real beauty in the act of desiring and creating is that we can rediscover and regain the perfection we once were right here on earth.

When our senses are quickened we feel the passion and magnificence of the human voice through the high notes of the late tenor giant Pavarotti. I silently sob when listening to him. Have you ever taken a whale boat watch ride? When the mighty whale surfaced near our boat and looked straight into my eyes, I was thrust back through the stream of evolution. What about the wild life coming to our patio door on a wintry day? To feed them is to feed ourselves. There is no difference. We are all one.

My affinity with swans reawakened when I was responsible for saving two of them on a frozen river. Their wings had been clipped and could not fly. Doesn't this story remind you of the human race? Our wings have been clipped through a sense of separation and denial of our true spiritual identity. Through millions of years, the One Absolute Creator has nourished, supported, strengthened and filled the existing life with hope and the will to develop into a perfect medium capable of expressing inner Divine Attributes. We witness the Divine in all stages of life from the spider patiently designing his web to the Black Bear mothering her playful cubs. Yes, we wear a coat of skins but God's perfect Idea, the Christ Energy, lives as us.

The Change from Mental to Mortal Form

The Bible states, "I formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul." Our soul is the Creator's desire. The soul attracted to it the various elements of life substance (dust) and atom by atom, and cell by cell, in time created a mold and brought it into material form. In other words, a psychic outer covering eventually manifested. Once the psychic form was created, the soul, an attribute of God, breathed life into the nostrils (from within) and we made our first appearance as a human being...a living soul.

The idea was for the mental/psychic form to materialize in matter containing all of the attributes, powers and possibilities of the Divine. We have the innate power to use any or all of the attributes. This was the only reason that the Creator brought us into human expression. We are self-conscious beings who looked to a higher Power for inspiration and guidance. This is how it was in the beginning before we forgot our true identity. When researchers write and speak about the Garden of Eden and the Edenic state of mind, they are referring to the original expression here on Earth.

The Edenic state was actually a Celestial or Impersonal Consciousness, a state of mind where we were still consciously One with our Creator. This actually occurred when we were in our first mortal form. What happened after our initial Earth expression was to fall into a deep sleep. A close of a cycle occurred and we are still asleep until that moment arrives when we become wholly conscious of the Divine within. From the highest spiritual perspective, humanity had to experience the Dream condition in order to develop a mortal mind and the ability to desire. Desire and Will supply the motives and power for us to evolve and complete the Creator's expression in matter.