MYSTICAL TEACHINGS

FROM THE MOUNTAIN

CHANNELED BY
GORDON ARTRIAS ROSENBERG
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About the Author

Gordon Artrias Rosenberg reawakened his natural intuitive and vibrational

energy abilities through years of self-discovery work with leading edge
transpersonal technologies and ancient spiritual disciplines. As a hands-on
practitioner and energy guide, he has conducted some 6000 individual
balancing sessions and taught many students in self-discovery and healing
modalities. In his metaphysical and healing arts books, articles and poetry, he
encourages others to explore their own higher self and learn to express their
true essence. Gordon lives in Bend, Oregon. You may see his creative work at
http://lightreport.org.
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Source

so much there is to do here

that so often we forget
the wisdom that’s inside us
and what’s not created yet

the illusions of this life

are but matters of recourse
when we’re ready to give up
we return once more to source
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Contents

Introduction ............................................................................. 6

Chapter 1: Learning to Channel One’s Self.................................. 10

Chapter 2: Discovering Our True Essence ................................... 13

Chapter 3: Time and Ego .......................................................... 18

Chapter 4: The Source Of It All.................................................. 23

Chapter 5: Living Beyond Belief ................................................. 27

Chapter 6: Following Spirit ....................................................... 31

Chapter 7: The Language of the Soul ......................................... 35

Chapter 8: What Is Love?.......................................................... 40

Chapter 9: Low Self-Esteem & High Egos ..................................... 43

Chapter 10: The Limitless Soul .................................................. 49

Chapter 11: Living Between the Boxes ........................................ 53

Chapter 12: Recognizing Your Perfection.................................... 56

Chapter 13: Separation from the Ultimate .................................. 61

Chapter 14: Belonging Where We Are ......................................... 66

Chapter 15: The Human Belief in Death...................................... 69

Chapter 16: Guilt and Other Emotions ........................................ 74

Chapter 17: The Earth Illusion .................................................. 79

Chapter 18: What’s Real About Nothing...................................... 82

Chapter 19: Dreaming Your Life................................................ 87

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Introduction

Each person on this planet has the ability to learn how to access the Source of
wisdom with and return to his or her essential, or real, self. You need only stop
pretending you’re less than what you came here to be, and allow your soul to
express itself fully. You are what you were when you came here. Ultimately,
there’s no other way to be. To realize your full potential, you must learn to be
what you are, wherever you find yourself on this planet. Pretending you’re less
than what you are is confusing to your soul, which wants you to be your
authentic self.

By contrast, your human parts often want you to be a struggling human, so they
can control your life. These parts conspire to try to make you believe that what
you see in the physical world is your real self. They want you to stay lost in the
human maze. Even though your soul is permanent and your human condition is
only temporary, your mind and its many “associates” such as the ego want you
to believe that they’re real and the soul is a product of your imagination. This
is backwards. The soul is the real part of you that never changes. Your human
condition is but a fleeting reality that’s here one moment and gone the next, in
terms of ultimate reality. You’ve always been your higher self, beyond the
cloudy veil of human illusion. You may not completely understand these higher
or deeper parts while you’re in human form, but these parts are real. If you’re
to expand your consciousness and become aware of yourself on higher planes of
knowledge and existence, you must transcend the fears of this world and see
your true and exalted self.

You can begin to do this today, by learning how to let go of all the aspects of
your being which keep you trapped in this worldly illusion. You must transcend
the need to identify with your past, your fears, your emotions, your cultural
conditioning, as well as with other people and their fears. You must see
yourself as fully capable of expanding your awareness as far as possible, while
you’re in human form. You don’t need to leave your body to become
enlightened. Enlightenment is not what you think. It’s not what others have
told you. Enlightenment is what you feel inside when you’re fully connected
with your universe, with your own expanded reality. You can access this place
of higher knowing, by releasing all that you’re not. You can become what you
are by being what you’ve always been.
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My conversations with Source, presented as questions and answers, are not

conversations with another entity at all. They’re conversations with my own
higher self. I don’t see the universe as separate in any way from our own
individual intelligence. In fact, I don’t believe in individual anything. I see all
of existence as one great functioning whole entity, with all parts moving and
interacting simultaneously to the mutual benefit of all. This is why I speak to
myself and of myself as if I’m one with all-that-is. There is no longer any sense
of separation in my mind, and hopefully, in my actions. I approach life as if it
were me, and mine to explore fully. There’s nothing keeping you from seeing
your life in this way. You can become fully aware of all of consciousness merely
by asking for that and allowing it to happen.

The process of opening to one’s higher knowledge can take many years, but
you can do it if you want it badly enough. You can stay on the path to higher
consciousness, and you can become enlightened in this lifetime. Enlightenment
isn’t something reserved for gurus or yogis or saints. It’s for you and me here
and now, because being enlightened – seeing all that we need to see to live
happy fulfilled lives – is our birthright. We come here to live such lives. It’s
only our confusion at being in human bodies, and the confusion of those around
us, that leads us astray. But you don’t have to stay astray. You can become
what you are today. You can discover enlightenment in your own terms, and
you can begin enjoying the fruits of recognizing your part in everything. At the
same time, enlightenment may be a process more than a destination;
something for which we aspire but which we can never define.

Hopefully, the conversations I have with myself in this book will help you get
back in touch with yourself. You can speak to yourself in this way, too, if it’s
your way. You can learn to channel your own higher awareness however you
choose. Perhaps it’s in deeds rather than words. We each have our own unique
ways of manifesting universal reality. You can access your own inner wisdom,
and you can put it to use in this world now. You don’t have to wait until some
far-off, perhaps unreachable time and place before expressing your true and
expanded self. You can do it now, while in your present form. Why wait until
later to be yourself?

Essentially, our higher wisdom comes to us from the Source of everything. Once
we learn to access this higher knowledge and express it through our actions and
our words, we have found our way home. This is the place where we know
we’re done with all the painful learning of this earthwalk. This is where we can
release all the negative aspects of our personality and become who we are on
the expanded levels of reality. You need only access this higher part of yourself
and let the answers you need come through you, in order to be that wise being
who is inside your body waiting to be discovered.

I can access this part of myself easily now, and you can learn to do it just as
easily. It takes only practice and a commitment to knowing your own highest
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truth. I use a question and answer format here, because it lends itself to such
discussion. I hope it may help you recognize that conversations inside your own
head may be your own spirit trying to speak to you. Give it a chance and you
may find that you’re not so far removed from your spiritual essence as you may
have thought. Higher consciousness is always waiting patiently just around the
corner. You can turn that corner in this lifetime. You can learn to see a whole
new landscape of reality. You can be that which you’ve always been, while you
still have time to enjoy it here.
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Section 1

WISDOM
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Chapter 1: Learning to Channel One’s Self

HOW DOES ONE LEARN WHO THEY ARE?

The best way is to learn how to “channel” information directly from Source.

WHAT IS SOURCE?
The Source of all-that-is; the origin of all information from all the universe, or
all of reality, however you wish to see it. Source is what is; that’s all. There’s
nothing outside of Source, and there's nothing you can’t learn to channel for
your own guidance and well-being.

CAN EVERYONE CHANNEL THEIR HIGHER SELF ACCURATELY?

Yes, everyone can, but often they don’t want to. It takes time to learn to
channel yourself accurately. You have to get past the self doubts and
delusions. After that, it comes pretty easily. In this sense, you’re supposed to
“channel” all the time. The only difficult thing about it is that most people
have forgotten how to do it, and so it appears difficult, if not impossible, to
those who think they can’t.

ARE YOU SAYING EVERYONE COMES HERE TO CHANNEL SOURCE?

Yes, it’s your natural way of being. Channeling simply means acquiring
information from beyond the human realm. It’s easy to do. One need only
believe that one is more than human, and therefore able to find out whatever
information one needs.

HOW CAN I LEARN TO CHANNEL MORE ACCURATELY?

Listen to your spirit, or whatever you call that part of you that’s inside. Listen
to what it tells you, and act on what you hear, as long as it seems appropriate.
Your spirit will tell you everything you need to know, as long as you listen and
take action.

HOW DO I KNOW IF IT’S APPROPRIATE TO ACT?

You should run everything you hear past your own discernment abilities. This is
true whether you hear it from another person, from your own mind, or from
what you might call spirit. Don’t take anyone’s or anything’s word for anything,
unless it feels right to you. Then act when you’re reasonably sure you’re
hearing the truth.
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WILL I MISS SOMETHING IMPORTANT IF I’M NOT CHANNELING ACCURATELY?

If you mean, will you fail to do something your spirit is recommending, yes, you
probably will. But learning to channel, or to hear what your higher self wants
for you, takes practice. You practice what you need to learn, and you get
better at it. Channeling is no different from anything in this regard. Don’t
worry about what you’re missing. There's always plenty of time. Your spirit will
never expect you to do anything in a rush.

HOW DOES ONE BECOME MORE ACCURATE?

By listening and practicing and trying out what seems right and seeing if it
works out for the better. In other words, if you “hear” that you should be doing
something, you can decide if it seems right, then try it. If it works out well,
then you were probably hearing accurately. In other words, we run it through
our human experience, which is a good thing. People are here to experience
their human-ness in terms of the higher self, so when you combine wisdom and
experience, you have a relatively foolproof system.

DOES THE SOUL ONLY SPEAK TO US WHEN WE LISTEN?

Your soul is trying to speak to you all the time. But because you’re a free being
who can decide for yourself which voice you want to hear, you may be acting
on something other than the voice of your soul most of the time. No one is
mandated to respond to the voice of one’s higher knowledge, by whatever
name one calls it. You can decide for yourself when it’s time to get information
from a higher power. Of course, if we used this resource more often, our lives
would go much more smoothly.

HOW DO WE AVOID THE “CHAOS” WHEN WE FIRST LEARN TO CHANNEL?

You can’t. It’s part of the learning process. As you first practice listening to
something other than your conscious mind, it can be quite confusing. It’s
difficult to know who or what you’re hearing. Often, the conscious mind gets
involved and plays all kinds of “tricks” on you. You may think you’re listening
to spirit, but you may really be hearing the voice of fear, or illusion, or anger,
or any number of other voices. The mind keeps feeding you all the other
voices, until you learn how to deal with these voices and let them go.

WHY ARE OUR EARLY VOICES OFTEN QUITE FRIGHTENING?

This is because everything you’ve ever repressed inside you needs to be
released before you can channel your real self accurately. You must release all
the fear and judgments however they want to come out. People often get
frightened during this stage of the process and stop doing it altogether.

IS THAT WHY MOST PEOPLE DON’T LISTEN TO THE HIGHER SELF?

Yes, and it’s also the fear that they will look “stupid” or that they will frighten
someone else. When most people begin “channeling” in this way, they do listen
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to those other voices a lot, and they may act on something that’s, shall we say,
less than productive. Our minds are full of all kinds of ideas, and some of them
are downright foolish.

DO YOU MEAN IT’S COMMON TO MAKE A FOOL OF ONESELF AT FIRST?

Well, yes, that’s one way to put it. Many people have done things that appear
foolish, in the name of channeling. You know it’s said that half of all the words
attributed to channeling are really just nonsense, and that’s probably true. In
the beginning, your so-called channeled words are probably mostly nonsense.
But you get more accurate as you practice.

IF I PRACTICE ALL DAY, WILL I BECOME PROFICIENT ENOUGH THAT I WON’T

HAVE TO LISTEN TO MY ORDINARY MIND ANYMORE?
Yes, but your mind, or your ego, won’t go down easily. You’ll have to be very
diligent in continuing to listen to the wisdom and weed out the nonsense.

WHAT’S IT LIKE TO CHANNEL ACCURATELY ALL THE TIME?

It’s like knowing who you are and not holding onto past conditioning and
beliefs. Letting go of anything that may have made you feel unworthy, or
stupid, or anything else that kept you from being your authentic self, your true
essence. It’s letting go of the mind and knowing how to act every moment,
based on your true wisdom.

WHAT IS MY TRUE ESSENCE?

Once you’ve accurately released your past conditioning and fears, you are the
essence of love manifested in human form. There’s really no reason to do
anything here but channel your higher wisdom and be universal love. When you
stop listening to any other voices, you become the essence of love, and you
manifest that essence in any way you can in the world.
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Chapter 2: Discovering Our True Essence

WHY DO WE COME HERE?

You come here to better understand what it’s like to be human, so you can
transcend human consciousness and become the exalted, high being that
you’ve always been. Is this difficult for you to realize? That you’re a highly
evolved being when you come here? Most people never break through their
illusions of who they are. They stay enmeshed in delusion and fear and never
discover themselves. Why is this? Usually it’s because there’s too much fear of
the unknown clouding the truth. They never break through this fear. But you
can if you want. You can discover who you are.

HOW DO I KNOW I’M THIS CONSCIOUS EVOLVED BEING?

You know it because you know it, when you’re ready to accept it. Let’s look for
a moment at who you aren’t, though you may have used these ways to identify
yourself. First, you’re not your beliefs. You’ve never been what you thought
you were. Thoughts don’t get one to the truth. Thoughts keep you stuck in your
past. Thoughts are always about the past and they have no clue about the
truth. Thoughts are total delusion. Thoughts are the way the mind uses to stay
anchored in what’s gone before. You need to get beyond the past, before you
can discover your true self.

BUT DOESN’T MY PAST DEFINE WHO I AM?

No. You’re not your past in any way. The past is simply something that
happened in human terms and time, neither of which is real. You are also not
your future. You’re not what you’ve been working toward, what you thought
you needed to have before you could be complete, or what others have said
you needed to be. You’re not anything that the mind can think or believe.

CAN I DEFINE MYSELF IN SOME OTHER WAY?

No, not really. You’re also not your feelings. You’re not what you’ve felt,
imagined, envisioned, or feared. You’re not your emotions, or the emotions
and feelings of those around you. You’re also not what others may think you
are. If you think, for instance, that you’re a parent, or child, or spouse, or
employee, you must give up these beliefs before you can find who you are.
You’re not your job, your house, your car, your possessions, your desires,
anything related to the physical world around you. You may be pretending to
be these things while you’re here, but they are not your essence. In fact, you
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can’t define who you are at all. You must get beyond the need to define
yourself in any way, before you can find yourself. You must become limitless.

BUT HOW ARE WE TO KNOW WHO WE ARE IF WE CAN’T IDENTIFY IT?

This is the entire point. You are more than anything you can know. You must
let go of trying to identify yourself in any of the common ways. You must let go
of the need to be anything, in order to be who you are. You must go beyond all
the known and into the complete unknown. Your energy is your own energy,
and any time you define yourself in the terms of your thoughts, other people’s
ideas of you, or the norms of the culture in which you live, you’re cheating
yourself. You’re failing to see your independent and interdependent energy in
its own light. You are much more than anything that can be seen as part of any
third dimensional reality.

SO WHAT IS THE NATURE OF MY ESSENTIAL SELF?

You are the essence of life itself, and you can never define this essence. We
can call this essence “love” because love covers a wide range of emotional
states and realities which go far beyond what humans can experience.

DO YOU MEAN THERE’S MUCH MORE TO EMOTIONS THAN HUMANS CAN FEEL?
Yes. Emotions run very deep. They are real on some level, as in the form of
exalted feelings. But emotions as humans feel them are pretty much un-
exalted feelings caught up in fear and delusion.

WHY BOTHER TO REALIZE MY TRUE ESSENCE? WHY NOT JUST GO ON LIVING

IN DELUSION?
Do you mean that it might be easier to live here in delusion than to realize your
true self and all your magnificent gifts? If so, yes, you’re right, it would be
easier. Because you’ll never be fully happy as long as you’re living in delusion.
Delusion keeps you stuck in the past. It’s very frustrating on the soul level, and
you always know when your soul is less than fulfilled. It nags at you in countless
ways until you take steps to find your real self. This may take years or
lifetimes, but you’ll have no lasting peace until you embark on a diligent
search for yourself.

HOW DOES ONE DISCOVER LASTING PEACE?

Peace comes when one lets go of the past and discovers the truth, by whatever
name they choose to call it. Truth is what never changes, what goes on
forever, and what can never be faked or pretended. Truth is the unchanging
way of the universe, and you can discover this truth if you’re willing to let go
of everything else.

HOW DO I LEARN TO LET GO OF ALL ELSE?

You need to continue asking yourself “Who am I?” until you tire of making up
answers and see yourself for who you are. That’s all there is to it. Those who
are bold enough to take this path – and stick to it - will find their way home to
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the inner self, to where the wisdom of the universe dwells. The dweller within
is you, and it’s there waiting whenever you’re ready to discover it. You can get
beyond the illusion of this place whenever you want.

WHAT IS ILLUSION?
Illusion is the belief that you must do one thing or another in order to be here.
Illusion comes from the belief that if you don’t participate somehow in life on
this planet, you won’t be able to be here at all. So everyone goes about
believing something which they think they must believe, in order to buy into
the physical world in some way. This creates agreements of how things are
here. Such agreements are the basis of illusion, and illusion creates the need to
fit in.

IF WE DIDN’T NEED TO FIT IN, HOW WOULD WE LIVE HERE?

You would live freely. You would decide what to do based on your need to see
yourself as you truly are. Why would you need to see yourself as any less than
you are? It’s because you don’t know yourself enough to express your true
reality. And you go about expressing yourself as the illusions you believe you
are. Once you learn who you really are, you give up the need to impress others.
You no longer need to express yourself in less authentic ways. You learn to do
only what’s mandated by spirit and stop concerning yourself with anything else.

WHY DO WE NEED TO IMPRESS ANYONE ELSE?

Everyone wants to be loved. But they often forget they’re automatically loved
by spirit. They forget that no matter what one does here, love is always
available to them. Love is a given. You don’t need to do anything to deserve it.
But most people think they need to be loved by others, and that they must do
something to justify that love. Hence, everyone goes about trying to impress
others by fitting into a world which nobody created.

WHO DID CREATE THIS WORLD?

No one person or thing created anything here. This worldly reality grows out of
the mass consciousness of those living here, being created each moment based
on their thoughts and fears. This is why worldly reality is an illusion; because
it’s based on fears and thoughts, rather than on universal knowledge and higher
awareness.

CAN WE LIVE HERE FREE OF ILLUSION?

Yes, you can learn to live as a free being. Your soul will tell you what you need
to know, if you ask. Souls don’t pay any attention to mass hysteria. You don’t
have to follow the thoughts and fears of this place. You need only to begin
living as your soul wants you to live to find yourself living freely.

HOW DOES ONE BEGIN?

You learn to sense what’s in your body and what your spirit wants to tell you.
You give yourself the opportunity to relax on a daily basis. Let go of the need
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to know or do anything. Just sit and relax however it works for you. Take a hot
bath, sit in the sun, do a meditation practice or yoga, or simply lie down and
relax somewhere; it really doesn’t matter exactly what you do. The important
thing is that you allow yourself to relax and begin sensing what the body has to
tell you. Let the sensations come from deep inside you.

WHAT DO I DO WITH THE THOUGHTS WHICH ARE ALWAYS THERE?

If you find yourself “thinking” in some way, seek to access thoughts which
come from a place of higher knowing, rather than from the mind’s fears or
delusions. When thoughts arise, try to feel them in the body. If you can’t feel a
thought in the body, you can know it’s coming from the mind and isn’t
accurate in terms of guidance and higher awareness. Letting a thought arise
from the body always lets you know that it’s real. Thoughts which you can feel
in the body are telling you that your soul wants you to know something. The
more you can relax, the greater will be your ability to hear the wisdom of the
body and soul.

HOW CAN ONE LEARN TO RELAX MORE DEEPLY?

People often take classes in relaxation or meditation or yoga or tai chi or
whatever. The important thing is to sit or lie down whenever you feel like it.
Don’t fight the need to rest, even if it doesn’t seem like the appropriate time.
Our minds pay attention to time; our bodies tell us when they’re tired and
want to rest. Bodies also tell us when the soul wants to speak to us, if we let
them. Your soul may want to speak to you in the middle of the day, or the
middle of the night. Let it happen, as best you can. Close your eyes for a few
minutes, be silent, let the answers come to you.

WHEN I’M TIRED THESE DAYS, SOMETIMES I DON’T SLEEP, BUT I SEEM TO BE
RELAXING, IS THAT OKAY?
Sure, your mind doesn’t always need to be “asleep” in the old way for your
body to relax. The mind can do whatever it wants. We’re used to having the
mind be asleep while we’re resting. But this isn’t necessary. Some yogis and
the like don’t sleep at all, because they’ve learned to slow down the mind all
the time. They no longer have the need to sleep in order to release all the busy
thoughts which most people’s minds accumulate during the day. It’s possible to
release each thought and its effects as it occurs so the mind won’t need to
replay it and release it later.

CAN I STOP THINKING AND STILL BE HERE?

No, but you can stop thinking about thinking. You can stop thinking that you
should or shouldn’t think a particular thing. You can also stop thinking that if
you think one thing instead of another thing, it’s not good. Do you know what I
mean? If you think it’s not right to think something, and so you try to think
something else, then you end up in a vicious circle of thinking and then
thinking about thinking, until you’re so confused you don’t know what you
thought in the first place. The best approach is to think whatever you think,
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and always bear in mind that everything here is an illusion anyway, so it

doesn’t much matter what you think.

HOW CAN I BE MOTIVATED IF I DON’T THINK ABOUT THINGS?

You can find motivation inside you, other than in your thoughts. True
motivation comes from knowing who you are, at your core, and letting your
inspiration do anything come from that core place. Thinking confuses this
process, so it’s better to let the thoughts pass through the mind, and don’t pay
too much attention to them.

IF THINKING IS SUCH AN OBSTACLE, WHY DO WE DO IT?

Humans have to think in order to be here. There’s a lot to think about, but it’s
all related to living a basic existence, doing the things you must in order to
live. This includes such things as eating, sleeping, etc.; basic survival skills.
Beyond this, thinking is really pretty much a waste of time and energy. So you
could say that thinking is inevitable; but you can still access a higher source of
knowledge and let the thoughts come and go.
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Chapter 3: Time and Ego

WHY DO WE LOSE SIGHT OF OURSELVES?

Most people forget who they are when they come here. They may try to
remember for a time, but there’s so much confusion around them that it’s
difficult. They may see things which remind them of a universal reality that
exists beyond this place. But their visions are rarely confirmed by others, so
it’s common to let them go. With all the chaos and delusion, it’s easy to fall
into the trap of believing one is deluding oneself about higher realities. But the
image of something greater than this third dimensional reality is not delusional;
it’s a message about the way things truly are in other places.

WHAT IS OUR ‘HIGHER VISION’?

It’s a way of seeing unlimited reality. The mind as we often speak about it is
limited to physical reality of which it’s part; an earthly or third dimensional
reality. Higher mind is a state of reality in which we see more of what’s real,
beyond this physical dimension. We can enter this higher state whenever we
want. All we must do is transcend the need to cling to earthly reality as if it
were real. Earth is but one location in a galaxy of realities. You must transcend
the tendency to live only in this reality before you can see other realities.

HOW DOES EARTH LIFE FIT INTO THE WHOLE OF EXISTENCE?

It doesn’t. It’s not part of existence. It’s part of the human illusion. The earth
doesn’t exist any more than any of the rest of what’s seen or believed in
human terms exists. The earth is simply a perceived reality in which beings
perceive themselves to be alive in a certain physical form. But earthly life is an
illusion, in that it doesn’t last forever and isn’t known on higher levels of
consciousness.

DO YOU MEAN IF SOMETHING DOESN’T LAST FOREVER, IT’S NOT REAL?

Yes, exactly. Forever is what never changes, what’s always one way or
another. There may be many changes within forever, but the key aspects never
change. You’re part of a changing reality as long as you’re alive on this planet.
Therefore, earthly reality isn’t real. It’s an illusion created by the minds of
those who live here.
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WHAT’S THE NATURE OF ‘FOREVER’?

Forever itself is but a state of mind. Since time is also an illusion of the human
realm, forever can never be distinguished from what simply is. There could
never be anything else. There’s no other way for things to be. Forever is just
what is. You don’t have to put a label on it. You can just accept what is and be
in that form each moment. No need thinking about what’s next or what might
be; just experience each moment as it comes.

WHY IS THERE SUCH A THING AS TIME HERE?

People invented time as a way to perceive that everything wasn’t happening at
once. If everything is experienced as happening at once, the mind will become
very confused. The mind wants the events of this world to happen in a nice
controlled order, so it can keep track of everything. The mind really functions
very slowly in cosmic terms, though it may seem incredibly fast in human
terms.

HOW CAN WE BECOME TIMELESS?

Imagine a reality in which everything happens at once. How could any linearly-
based object like the mind keep up with this reality? A person must transcend
the need for linear time and linear physical life entirely before being ready for
timeless living. You must let go of the need to identify yourself by any physical
means.

WITHOUT TIME, HOW CAN I KNOW WHAT AND WHEN TO DO?

When the frustration with old ways of living one’s life gets too big to ignore,
one starts living in a more time-free reality. You begin to understand that
you’re now living in a way that’s far less dependent on any aspect of “worldly
reality” including the illusion of time. You begin living more in the present
moment, doing what your heart or your soul tells you to do, rather than
functioning as a being who is dependent on other people or events to shape
your life. When you do what you want each moment, you break free of the
illusion that you’re controlled by time or anything else. You do what you want
and become the multidimensional being you were when you came here. You
exist beyond the norms of this place. Time is then no longer a factor of
existence for you.

HOW DOES AUTHENTIC SELF-EXPRESSION HELP ONE EVOLVE?

Learning to express your authentic, or true, self is one of the most important
things you can do here. This isn’t the kind of action where one’s “ego” feels
the need to express itself in some way. We may think we’re expressing
ourselves in a new or unique way when it’s still our egos controlling us. With
practice, we can learn to express the authentic self as it wants to be expressed
each moment.
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HOW CAN WE DO THAT?

You can learn to be who you are, and not who other people or society in
general may think you are or may want you to be. You can learn to express
yourself in a way that’s truly unique for you each moment. The secret is to
learn to sense your true motivation to do anything, rather than acting from the
ego. Each time you express yourself in a more authentic way you expand your
consciousness. You bring through new energy and express it in the world in
ways that help you grow, and likely help others around you grow. You’re part
of all existence and anything you do to facilitate the expansion of that
existence helps all who are within it.

WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN EGO-CONTROLLED AND SOUL-BASED

SELF-EXPRESSSION?
When the ego controls your response to anything, whether it feels unique to
you or not, it’s keeping you within the box of “acceptable” behavior. This may
be the acceptable behavior of a small group of people, or of the cultural norm.
But it’s still a box within which you’re functioning in relative security, even if
your actions seem far outside the norm. It doesn’t matter how large or how
small a group to which you’re conforming. If you’re not acting from spirit, from
your authentic self’s need to express in the way you’re expressing yourself,
you’re still being controlled by the ego and its attachment to this world.

DOES THE EGO ALWAYS SEEK TO CONTROL OUR BEHAVIOR?

Yes, because to keep you safe in it’s limited context, it must control you.
Therefore, you won’t really express yourself in very imaginative ways as long as
you allow the ego to set the tone for your expression. The ego is not a very
creative thing.

HOW DO I GO BEYOND EGO?

You let it die, one way or another. The best way is to insist on expressing
yourself in new ways all the time, even if those ways may feel a bit
uncomfortable. When you take chances, your ego will try to make you feel
uncomfortable. You must be willing to take those chances anyway, and let the
ego fume a little on occasion. Know that when you’re feeling this discomfort, it
may be because the ego has lost control and is trying to get you back into your
box where it can be in charge again. For most people, the ego is very much in
control. When fear arises in them, they back off. And fear is usually quite
prevalent in people. Fear actually pretty much controls this world, which is not
the way it was intended to function at all.

WHAT DO WE FEAR CHANGE?

Fear as it relates to personal growth is here to tell you when you’re doing
something you shouldn’t be doing. This may include doing your life “too
normally”. You may actually feel fear when you’re stuck in an old reality that’s
no longer serving you. You may also feel fear when you make changes that
don’t feel quite right. The secret is to get in touch with your body and your
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soul and let them tell you when you’re doing what you need to be doing, from
the soul’s perspective.

IN OTHER WORDS, WE GO BEYOND FEAR AS MOTIVATION?

Yes, that’s it! You go beyond the need for fear to ever control you. You make
your decisions based on your own need to know what to do next. You let the
decisions come from deep within you, and you do what your heart wants you to
do. When you stop making decisions based on fear, you begin to find that fear
will not longer be so significant in your life. It will simply drift away and attach
itself to someone else’s life.

DO YOU MEAN FEAR HAS A LIFE OF ITS OWN?

Yes, that’s pretty much it. Fear drifts around this planet and attaches to
people who are open to experiencing it. When you decide to no longer be
motivated by fear, it must go someplace else, like a virus, to maintain its
existence. If everyone on this planet refused to allow fear into their lives, it
would die a natural death and would no longer be part of the human reality.
But as long as people are willing to give it a home inside them, it continues to
live on and do its damage here.

HOW DO WE LEARN TO LET THE SOUL GUIDE OUR LIVES?

By listening to it every chance you get and letting it know you will follow what
it tells you. By taking chances now and then, as long as you feel those risks are
guided by the soul and not the mind. By giving up fear and delusion and doing
what you’re here to do. There’s a quote from Patanjali’s Yoga Sutras of many
centuries ago which goes like this: “The final stage [of the self-realization
process] is when one comes to the end of 1) the need to know anything, 2) the
need to stay away from anything, 3) the need to gain anything, 4) the need to
do anything, 5) sorrow, 6) fear, 7) delusion.” This is all very true. When you’re
ready to give up all this, you’re ready to move forward and be your fully
expressive higher self.

CAN I LIVE HERE NOW AS MY HIGHER SELF?

Yes, you can live however you choose and express yourself as you truly are.
Until you’re ready to do that you’ll be frustrated, because living as less than
who you are is not very fulfilling.
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Section 2

ILLUSION
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Chapter 4: The Source Of It All

WHAT IS THE SOURCE OF HIGHER KNOWLEDGE?

Source is the state of things that goes beyond all that is, that includes all that
is, and that is indefinable in that it goes beyond whatever can be imagined.
Source is what we all are, and what we all aren’t but could be, and it’s what
we can never know. Source is everything and it is nothing at all.

IF SOURCE IS SO ABSTRACT, WHY TALK ABOUT IT AT ALL?

Because Source can tell you all you need to know. Source can tell you what
you’re doing right and what you’re doing wrong and where you need to change
and where you can never change … in order to be yourself. You don’t need to
understand Source to benefit from what it has to say to you.

WHY DO I HEAR FROM SOURCE IN HUMAN TERMINOLOGY?

Source is you. How would you speak to yourself in terms you can’t understand?
This would make little sense. Speak to yourself in ways you understand and
know at the same time that your energy and your wisdom extend far beyond
human consciousness.

WHERE IS SOURCE LOCATED?

Source is everywhere. It’s inside you. It’s outside you. It’s in between you. It’s
everywhere that anything is and everywhere that nothing is.

CAN’T WE JUST IGNORE SOURCE AND LIVE HAPPILY HERE?

No, not really. Source has all the important answers which you need to live a
better, happier life. Source is your path to higher consciousness. Source can
give you the advantage of knowing what you came here to do and how to do it.
Without this knowledge, you’ll never be fully satisfied with your human life.

WHERE DOES SOURCE’S INFORMATION ORIGINATE?

It comes from the Source of everything. From the place where all awareness
resides. You can discover this place if you try. It’s the place from which you
come, and it’s where you go when you leave here. Source is all that is, that’s
all.
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IS MY SOURCE THE SAME AS EVERYONE ELSE’S SOURCE?

Yes. There’s no difference for anyone here. All here are (as is said) one. One
being. One awareness. One knowledge. One set of instructions and one manual
for success. You need only to do what all others need to do, to be successful
here in your own way.

DOES THIS MEAN ALL OF US ARE HERE TO DO THE SAME THING?

In a sense, yes, everyone comes here to do the same thing. That thing is to get
in touch with oneself and know who one is. Do you all look and act the same?
No, of course not. You each have particular ways of learning who you are and
what you’re here to do.

WHY DO WE APPEAR IS SO MANY DIFFERENT FORMS?

Because Source likes it that way. Source is infinitely creative. No way is better
than any other. No body is better or worse than another. It doesn’t matter
what body you’re in or what body anyone else is in. Each body is made of the
same stuff. Nothing! That’s right! You’re all made of nothing. The fact that you
see a body at all is really an illusion, in the sense that you see one being as
being different from all other beings. It’s an illusion to see people as separate
from each other and from all the cosmos and all that lies beyond it.

DO YOU MEAN SOURCE INCLUDES MANY OTHER REALITIES?

Of course. There are many universes. By the way, your universe doesn’t exist,
either. Just as you don’t exist. Though there are many universes, there are also
no universes. Just one big reality that includes nothing physical. All universes
are illusions that don’t exist.

DO YOU MEAN ALL THE STARS AND PLANETS AND ALL THE THINGS
ASTRONOMERS HAVE DISCOVERED REALLY DON’T EXIST?
That’s right. All illusion. You don’t exist and neither does your universe.

WHY DO WE SEE ALL THESE THINGS THEN?

Because you want to see them. You want to believe something exists, so you
pretend it does. Everyone has gotten together and believed these things exist,
and pretty soon they started existing, at least in your imaginations. But beyond
this illusion, nothing exists, and when you go beyond it, you begin to approach
the key to everything. By accessing the place where the illusion ends, you
reach the place where reality begins.

IF NOTHING IS REAL ABOUT THIS WORLD, HOW CAN WE REACH A PLACE

WHERE SOMETHING EXISTS?
By going inside the illusion so far that you realize you can never get to the end
of it; then by giving up the illusion for whatever it is and going even further.
You have to surrender all that you see around you before you can discover what
really is. Most people never take this path because it’s too threatening to
them. Most are content to sit where they are and refuse to budge beyond
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what’s comfortable. Lifetime after lifetime. Returning to the same place and
sitting there for an entire lifetime without moving an inch.

WOULDN’T THAT GET BORING?

Yes, but most people do it nevertheless. They don’t know it’s disheartening,
because they’re afraid to look far enough to see what’s in their own hearts. So
they sit in one place, not feeling what they don’t want to feel, until they leave
again. They’re certain they’ve been part of something real - usually painfully
real.

IS THAT WHY PEOPLE COME BACK HERE TIME AFTER TIME SEEKING
ENLIGHTENMENT?
Sure, that’s it exactly. If you’re afraid to grow and expand, you stay where you
are … forever. But that’s okay, because remember, it’s all an illusion. Forever
never happens.

BUT WHY COME BACK HERE TO EXPERIENCE THE SAME THING?

Well, first, they’ve forgotten that it’s the same thing, because they don’t
remember they were here, until it’s too late to stop the process. Then, they
start looking around and things seem painfully familiar, but they don’t really
know why. And since most people are afraid to consider the possibility of an
expanded reality that includes much more than this one, they cling to an
imagined reality, thinking it’s better than nothing. But regrettably, they have
the wrong idea of what nothing is. True nothingness is really a very beautiful
state-of-being.

WHAT’S THE NATURE OF NOTHINGNESS?

Nothing is a magnificent place in which you are everything, and you are also
nothing. It frees you from having to be anything in particular in order to exist.
When you accept that you are nothing, you’re free to be whatever you want.

HOW CAN I BE ANYTHING IF I’M REALLY NOTHING?

You just be it. You decide what you want to be, and you be it as fully as
possible. You’re free to be whatever you want while you’re here, or anywhere.

IS THERE A PLACE WHERE THERE’S SOMETHING?

No. There’s nothing anywhere. You decide what’s real, and you make it as real
as you want. But there’s nothing real anywhere, in terms of one reality which
you have to be a part of. You decide your reality and make it real, however you
want.

BUT HOW CAN THINGS APPEAR SO REAL HERE?

This is only because people have agreed that they’re real, and they don’t
imagine things to be different. All that happens here is really an illusion
perpetuated by thoughts and beliefs and fears of those who are here. Most
people are controlled by their beliefs and thoughts and this perpetuates an
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entire reality that really doesn’t exist, except in the combined imagination of
people. If you can imagine one reality, then you can learn to imagine another
(and perhaps more positive) reality for yourself.
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Chapter 5: Living Beyond Belief

IS IT POSSIBLE TO LIVE HERE WITHOUT BELIEFS?

Yes, but it’s very difficult. It takes great perseverance to get beyond beliefs
because they’re so pervasive here. Most people buy into the mass belief system
and go about their lives not knowing they’re living a reality generated by other
people and their thoughts.

WHAT’S IT LIKE TO LIVE BEYOND BELIEFS?

When you don’t let beliefs control your life, you’re free to have whatever
beliefs you choose. And you’re free to have no beliefs at all. You’re not
controlled by your beliefs unless you want to be. Living without beliefs is living
freely, without the need to think or believe anything in particular.

HOW CAN WE DO THAT AND STILL BE WHO WE ARE?

Your question implies that people must believe something, in order to be here.
This is not true. You can believe anything you want and still be here, but these
beliefs do not need to define you. You can learn that having beliefs is merely a
circumstance of life here, and as such, beliefs can be given up as easily as
they’re accumulated. Why would you need to have beliefs to define yourself, if
you knew you’re more than you see? There’s a big difference between having
beliefs and being attached to them, and having beliefs and not being attached
to them. The difference is that you form the intent to not be controlled by
your beliefs. You just let them go through you, like thoughts on the wind, and
you continue to be what you really are.

BUT AREN’T MY BELIEFS AN IMPORTANT PART OF WHO I AM?

No, your beliefs have nothing to do with who you are. Your beliefs are only a
circumstance of being here. All people have beliefs, but their beliefs and
opinions are but dust on the wind. They can be given up as easily as they’re
acquired.

IF I HAD NO BELIEFS, HOW WOULD I LIVE EACH DAY?

You would let spirit, or your soul, be the guiding factor in your life. You would
give up any attachment to the way you perceive things to be, and stop living
according to beliefs and opinions. You would live each moment as if it were
your first moment here; not needing to know anything, or be anything, just
living in that moment.
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HOW DOES ONE DO THAT?

By giving up the illusion that one needs to define oneself in any way. What
would it be like if you didn’t define yourself? What’s so good about defining
yourself at all? Why not just live according to spirit and be what you are? This is
all there really is to life; being what you are and not having to be anything in
particular.

HOW DO BELIEFS BEGIN?

Beliefs originate in each person’s mind, but they’re also the product of what’s
been called “universal consciousness”. In other words, they fly around in the
air, from person-to-person. They have no real connection with any one being;
they attach themselves to as many people as possible. Beliefs are contagious;
they don’t care where they land, anywhere that’s fertile ground for them.

ARE SOME PEOPLE MORE RECEPTIVE TO BELIEFS?

Yes, most people are receptive to beliefs of one kind or another, but some are
more receptive to negative beliefs, for instance. They may believe in
negativity, or fear, and any belief that resonates with those fears is more apt
to attach to them.

HOW DOES ONE NOT BE FERTILE GROUND FOR NEGATIVE BELIEFS?

You learn to not allow beliefs to form your opinions. If you can guard against
negativity in your life, keep yourself from thinking negative thoughts so often,
beliefs will have a difficult time attaching to you. It really is as simple as
thinking kind, optimistic thoughts; not as in trying to control your mind, but
rather allowing yourself to think positively. Negativity can’t attach so easily to
one who believes in an ultimately positive reality.

WHAT IS “POSITIVE REALITY”?

It’s a reality in which beliefs are only one way of defining oneself. A reality in
which you go far beyond beliefs or anything else that’s prevalent on this
planet. It’s a reality in which all those here are free to express themselves
according to their innermost wisdom, their innermost awareness. In positive
reality, there’s no such thing as fear because fear is only existent in human
consciousness.

DO YOU MEAN THERE’S A CONSCIOUSNESS THE SUPERCEDES HUMANITY?

Of course. Human consciousness is limited to what happens in the third
dimensional physical world, which includes the thoughts and beliefs that are
prevalent in that world. Beyond human consciousness lies all the wisdom and
awareness that supercedes everything.
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HOW DOES ONE LIVE IN THAT CONSCIOUSNESS INSTEAD OF THE WORLD OF

BELIEFS AND FEAR?
You simply decide that beliefs no longer have power over you. You decide to
let go of anything that feels like it’s controlling you irrationally in some way.
You decide to be what you were when you came here, which was something far
beyond belief.

AM I FREE TO DO THAT TODAY?

Yes, you can do it anytime you want. You don’t have to be a realized master to
live free of beliefs. You need only to decide that you can do it, and then do it.
Start living your life today as if you’re free to be free of belief, and you’ll
notice changes happening for you.

WHAT KIND OF CHANGES?

Your awareness will immediately shift. You’ll notice that beliefs no longer
control you. You’ll see yourself as a more expanded being. You’ll realize what
the energy deep inside you, your soul, wants for you. And you’ll begin doing
your life in ways that bring you much more satisfaction. You energy is freed up
considerably, once you decide not to be controlled by beliefs of any kind.

IS SOURCE FREE FROM BELIEFS?

Yes. Beliefs are merely a human preoccupation. At all other levels of reality,
consciousness has no need to believe in anything. Existence is merely what it
is, and there’s no need to put labels or thoughts on it. It’s a much freer form of
being.

WHY DON’T MORE PEOPLE LIVE BEYOND BELIEFS?

Often, it’s because they’re arrogant. They think they know what’s right for
themselves – better than their spirit knows. They attach themselves to the
belief that they’re smart enough to live without higher guidance. They block
innovative ideas from coming through, often fearing anything new or unusual.
They go on living as if they knew everything, yet knowing deep down that they
know very little. Until one day, they give up the illusion and begin to see
through their arrogance to the place where the human self doesn’t exist. They
begin waking up to their arrogance and go beyond the illusion.

WHAT CAUSES PEOPLE TO BE SO ARROGANT?

Arrogance stems from the need for survival; the belief that to survive we must
be “really smart”. Arrogance keeps people trapped in past ways of thinking. If
you allow arrogance to keep you from yourself, you never learn what your soul
wants you to learn. You fail to transcend human consciousness, choosing
instead to go on believing you can handle this place on your own. Arrogance
also keeps people disconnected from the rest of the human race, separated
from all of existence, and even afraid of one’s own higher wisdom.
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HOW DOES ARROGANCE KEEP US ISOLATED?

When we believe we have all the answers, we close ourselves off from new
input. We stay trapped in our own small world of limitation. There are very few
answers of any real importance in this world, because it’s a world based on
past beliefs. We’re usually afraid to consider anything outside of our current
belief system. Strong belief systems and arrogance are often very connected,
because beliefs need arrogant attitudes to protect themselves from expanded
possibilities.

HOW IS ARROGANCE PART OF THE WORLD OF ILLUSION?

Arrogance can never see the light of expanded consciousness. It belongs to a
small world. There’s no room in arrogance for consideration of higher
consciousness. When you close yourself off from your higher self, you begin to
see yourself as the ultimate source of all information. Not in an expanded
context, as the light being you are, but in a limiting human context. How can
any human being know everything, when there’s so much happening beyond
human awareness? You must open to your complete awareness and transcend
the limitation of arrogance.

HOW DOES ONE TRANSCEND ARROGANCE?

One learns humility. Humility is the opposite of arrogance. While arrogance
keeps us trapped in the past, humility opens us to all that life has to give us.
Humility allows us to expand our consciousness and become witness to greater
and greater versions of reality.

HOW DOES HUMILITY LEAD US TO THE TRUTH?

While arrogance is limited to what’s in one’s mind, humility opens the door to
the entire universe and all its information. You see, through humility, that
everything you’ve believed may be either untrue or limiting. You learn to see
everything, when you need to see it. You let go of the need to be right about
anything, simply knowing what you need to know each moment. Arrogance
limits you to a small world of illusion inside your head. Humility opens you to
all that is. But you learn that you need hold onto none of it, and take credit for
none of it, because what’s real is always there for you, waiting until you’re
humble enough to discover it.
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Chapter 6: Following Spirit

CAN YOU EXPLAIN HOW KNOWLEDGE IS UNIVERSAL?

Yes. We often see or learn something and think it’s ours to keep. But
knowledge isn’t to be claimed and filed away like a possession of some kind.
It’s universal, to be shared with others. No one is alone here; each is here to
share what they’re given with all others. Wisdom isn’t personal. We tap into
universal consciousness and learn something that’s floating about, not because
we’re the only one that can know it. What a silly thought this is! Yet many
people act as if it’s their truth. If we try to file anything away for future
knowing, we may forget it. Or we may get it wrong the next time because it
may not appropriate to know it in that later moment. Wisdom is to be shared
and never horded. It’s always universal.

DO YOU MEAN OUR MEMORIES ARE INACCURATE?

Yes, memory doesn’t serve us as we think it does. Actually, we serve memory.
We think we know what we need to know. But our memory only tells us what it
thinks we need to know. Do you see the distinction here? If your memory tells
you what it thinks you need to know, you’re limited to what’s stored in it. On
the other hand, if you believe you can know whatever the universe wants you
to know, you open yourself to the entire universe of information. This is how
arrogance limits our reality. It keeps us trapped in the information that’s
already in the mind. We block all that could come to us from all the universe.
We horde the information in the mind as if it’s so important. But it’s really
useless, because it’s about the past.

IS MIND ALWAYS ABOUT THE PAST?

Yes, of course. The mind knows only its own past. Mind can never tell you
anything appropriate about what’s happening right now, except as it may
happen to relate to something from the past. Depending on what’s in your mind
to accurately inform you about present circumstances is at best a random
occurrence, a real grab bag.

HOW CAN I DEPEND ON “OTHER THAN MIND” TO GUIDE ME?

When you follow your spirit, and act from a place of “non-doing”, you act from
the deeper place where all the universe is connected in a magical dance of
energy. Your spirit knows what you need to do. You need only to reach a place
where you can hear or feel this deeper part of yourself, and then take
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appropriate action. There’s really nothing you HAVE to do here. You can be
here and no nothing at all, and still be productive. Effectiveness, or
productivity, isn’t a product of thinking or doing; it comes from following spirit
and doing what you’re really here to do.

HOW DO I KNOW WHEN I’M FOLLOWING SPIRIT?

You know because you stop trying to think of things to do. You just do what
comes into your mind, or your awareness, each moment. This is the simple way
to live one’s life, and it’s infinitely more effective and, ultimately, much more
enjoyable.

WHAT IF THE WRONG THINGS COME INTO MY MIND?

The mind may have in it the wrong things, because minds can’t know what the
soul wants for you. But when you’re really in touch with your higher self, the
wrong things will stop coming to you. You’ll know the difference between
lower thoughts of the mind and higher inspiration of spirit. You’ll learn to do
what the higher part wants you to do. If you were to truly follow spirit, you
would never do anything wrong, from the perspective of what your higher self
really wants for you. You would stop trying to think your way through life and
do what spirit wanted. It can become very easy, really.

HOW DOES ONE BEGIN TO LEARN TO FOLLOW SPIRIT?

You stop following fears and delusions; all the things of the third dimensional
world which people usually follow. You stop taking action just to be doing
something. You sit and you listen and you act when you feel the impulse to act
coming from deeply inside you, and not until then. You and your spirit are one;
you need only to allow it to speak to you, however it does, and act from a
place of inner knowing.

IS THIS WHAT YOU MEAN BY NOT TAKING ACTION UNTIL IT’S TIME?
Yes. You may sense that something new is coming for you to do. Maybe you’re
to move to a new place, or start a new line of work, or meet someone new, but
it’s not quite the right timing. You need to wait until the impulse to act comes
from that place of deep inner knowing. Then, you take action immediately
without questioning the Source. If you act too soon, you’re acting from a place
of wishing or wanting something to happen, rather than knowing that it will
happen “now” when you take action.

HOW CAN I LEARN TO ACT FROM TRUE KNOWING?

Sense your body and see what it has to tell you. Don’t go on what the mind
thinks. Minds can easily delude us, because they’re so caught up in the
trappings of the world. Let your impulses to act come from deep in your body.
Feel them in your gut, or in your heart. See what your body has to say to you,
and act only from that place.
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WHY CAN’T OUR MINDS TELL US WHAT TO DO?

Minds will tell us everything they want, as long as we’re willing to listen to
them. Once we stop listening to them, and allow them to go about their
business, they will begin to quiet down. The mind doesn’t really want to be in
control of things it knows nothing about. We’ve just put them in a position of
needing to try to be in control. Everything works much better if we let them be
in their true position, and seek deeper answers elsewhere.

IF I WAIT UNTIL MY MIND IS QUIET BEFORE I ACT, WON’T I BE WAITING

FOREVER?
Not necessarily. Eventually, you can learn to wait until you receive the bodily
impulse to act, then act. The impulse will come rather quickly once you give up
the need to act in any particular way. Sitting and relaxing can bring about an
instant state of awareness. You need only cultivate this ability and then your
mind will be happy to quiet down and let the soul speak to you.

HOW DOES THE “NEED” TO ACT CONTROL US?

The need to act keeps us doing everything for the wrong reasons. Perhaps you
want to be successful in the world. Or impress someone. Or make lots of money
and be outwardly happy. These are not good reasons to the soul. The soul
wants you to be happy on a deeper level, so it will encourage you to act only
from the place of inner knowing. The soul is your source to higher
consciousness. Its message to take action of any kind comes from deep within
you.

WHAT IS THE VALUE OF “NON-DOING”?

When we feel as if we must act in some way, we attract the mind’s fears, for
this is where fear lives. Nothing really needs to happen in this world. You’re
here to learn by not doing anything from a place of need or compulsion. Non-
doing is when you decide what to do by not doing anything. It can be tricky to
learn. You must learn to discern between the mind’s thoughts and the wisdom
of the soul.

HOW DO WE DO THAT?
You begin by sitting and waiting for what feels like an authentic impulse to act,
one which comes from spirit, or Source. When you get it, you act. Next, if
necessary, you sit and wait for another impulse to act. Or you may know
instantly what to do next, once you’ve done the first thing. It goes on like this
until you learn to trust your impulses more and more and act from that place of
knowing.

WHAT HAPPENS IF WE DON’T WAIT TO ACT?

If you take action from a hasty impulse – usually one which comes from the
mind – you’re not doing what your soul wants. You’re reverting back to doing
what the mind “thinks” it wants. You’re acting from a nervous energy which
you believe you must express somehow. Never trust the mind’s thoughts solely.
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Sit and wait for the answers and follow that guidance immediately, as long as
it’s something that won’t put you in peril in any way. The soul will never tell
you to do anything dangerous or frightening, though sometimes the mind and
ego may believe it’s frightening. You need to relearn how to get in touch with
yourself on a deep level where you can tell the difference.
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Chapter 7: The Language of the Soul

WHAT IF I CAN’T GET THE ANSWERS I NEED FROM MY SOUL?

You’ll get answers - if you quiet your mind and allow them to come. Answers
and soul impulses are inside you. They’re inside everyone; most just don’t wait
quietly and allow them to surface.

HOW CAN I TELL WHEN I’M ACTING FROM THE RIGHT PLACE?
First, you must let go of the need to do anything. Non-doing means giving
yourself the chance to know what to do – before you act. It doesn’t mean you
never doing anything at all. It means you sit and wait for the impulse to act
and then act. It means non-doing in terms of not doing anything you “think”
you should do. When you act from anywhere other than the soul, you give up
your power to decide what’s right for you. You take someone else’s idea of
what’s right, or the culture’s idea. Rather than acting from your own place of
knowing, you’re acting out of fear, or delusion, or happenstance, or something
other than your soul’s expanded point-of-view. When you act from the wrong
place, you feel discomfort of some kind in your body. You’ll know your body
wants you to be doing something else, no matter how secure or practical your
action may seem to the rational mind.

SO THE RATIONAL MIND CAN’T KNOW BEST FOR US?

Exactly. The mind alone can never know what the body or soul wants. Minds
were never intended to do the things we ask them to do. They were intended
to help us get through the days, doing all the little necessities of life. We
began asking them to do things for which they were never designed, when we
stopped trusting ourselves to know on the soul level. Minds are often confused
about what’s right, because they’re constantly listening to and observing the
physical world. This is their role. They belong to that world; it’s their job to
observe and comment on it. Your inner wisdom has the answers, and inner
wisdom can never be known by the mind.

IF OUR MINDS WERE “SMARTER”, WOULD WE KNOW OURSELVES BETTER?

No. Minds are supposed to do ordinary, daily tasks. Minds aren’t supposed to be
smart in the higher sense. They’re supposed to know how to get us through the
day. They’re basically the working part of our nervous system; that’s their true
role. Minds can never know on the higher level what’s right for us. That role
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belongs to the soul, the inner self, spirit, whatever one chooses to call it. This
part of us is real, and it’s the part that should be guiding our lives.
Minds can never learn what the soul knows, because they don’t speak the same
language.

WHAT’S THE LANGUAGE OF THE SOUL?

Impulses, inner knowing, hunches, feelings, awareness, bodily sensations,
forms of self-expression, creativity, all those things which the mind thinks it
knows but really has no knowledge of at all. The mind knows thoughts and only
thoughts; it can never know feelings or hunches or all those other things. Mind
are trained to do things linearly. That is, they have no concept of universal
reality, the reality which includes everything happening at once. Minds can’t go
to the place where all information is available to us every moment. Minds have
to stay basically in the past, for all thoughts are references to the past.

WHEN THE SOUL SPEAKS TO US, WHAT SHOULD WE DO?

Take action immediately, no matter how impractical that action may seem.
Don’t question what you’re doing, as long as you’re not doing anything which
may put you physically at risk in some way. The mind tells you to do things
which put you at risk, because it thinks you may “need” to have such an
experience. The soul never does this. So, you see, the mind really doesn’t have
your true security in mind at all. It has your fears in mind. It has your
judgments in mind. It has your overwhelming desires in mind. It doesn’t have
your real practical needs in mind.

WHY DOES THE MIND WORK THIS WAY?

The mind is trapped in a reality in which nothing happens that isn’t mandated
by the third dimensional physical world. Essentially, this means living in the
past, for the physical world is an outgrowth of past thoughts and past
conditions. It’s not part of what’s really happening in the present moment, on
the level where manifestation originates. Once you respond only to physical
reality, it’s too late to have any real influence over anything. The game is over
once action occurs on the third dimensional playing field.

DO YOU MEAN PHYSICAL REALITY IS ONLY AN ILLUSION?

Yes, you can’t affect third dimensional reality because it’s already over by the
time you notice it. This means it’s not vibrant, it’s not alive, it’s but a product
of past events. When you follow your past and let the mind determine how you
shall act, you’re following the wrong impulses, because they’re dead, finished
impulses. They’re impulses which come from fear or delusion about how things
are manifesting in the world, rather than from your alive and vibrant spirit.
When you follow your soul, you act from a place which knows what you really
need to manifest in your life. This inspiration to act will have a definite
influence over what plays out in your future.
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IS THERE SUCH A THING AS “THE FUTURE”?

In one context, the answer is no, there is no future. There is only the present
moment and the things you choose to do in it. In another context, there is
something to come, something that will take place based on your soul’s
impulses today. If you act a certain way which the soul wants you to act,
whether it’s to write these words, or take a walk, or whatever, something will
happen next. The key is that you do what you “know” you should do, in order
to facilitate that next thing in happening, then follow the soul’s impulses to
the next thing and the next, etc.

IS THIS WHAT LIVING INTUITIVELY IS ALL ABOUT?

Yes, it’s following your intuition to everything that really needs to happen for
you. Even if you don’t think you’re doing anything at all, you’re still going from
thing to thing, and waiting for the next impulse to come to you. Impulsive
living is not what most people think. Impulses and intuition have been given a
bad name in this mind-oriented world. Most people believe they have to follow
the mind, or chaos will result.

HOW DID THIS HAPPEN?

The mind has been a good salesman. It’s convinced most people that it must be
in charge, or they won’t know how to live their lives. Nothing could be further
from the truth. The mind needs to relax and let the body and soul run the life.
The mind needs to pay attention to its own work and let the other parts make
the major decisions.

HOW WOULD OUR LIVES CHANGE IF THE MIND DID ONLY ITS WORK?
Your lives would work very smoothly. You would go from task to task knowing
that it was exactly right for you to be doing in that moment. Life would be far
different. No one would do anything based on what they thought they should
do, or because someone told them to do it. Life would take on the image of a
dance, instead of a battle. Most people battle their ways through life; making
all the wrong decisions and doing all the wrong things based on the wrong
information.

ARE YOU SAYING MOST PEOPLE ARE ALWAYS AT WAR IN SOME WAYS?
Yes! Most people fight with each other on some level constantly, competing for
things they don’t even need because they think they must fight or they won’t
have anything. But fighting keeps us trapped in old realities. Our minds want to
fight for everything, again out of fear or delusion. But minds can never be
satisfied. They just fight for the next thing, once we’ve “achieved” the last
thing. Minds can never know peace. The soul knows peace; we need only to
learn to listen to it and wait for it to give us peace.

HOW DO WE ACHIEVE PEACE?

We don’t achieve peace. We allow peace to come to us. We let ourselves
receive what the soul wants for us. Peace comes when we’re ready to accept
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it. Peace is the product of letting ourselves know what the soul wants. Peace
comes when we’re ready to have it fully in our lives. Peace is the true nature
of the inner self. Humans are at peace deep inside. When you let go of the fear
of not having what you want, you’ll have everything you really need. Live your
life this way, and you’ll find all the peace you could ever imagine, and a lot
more.

CAN OUR MINDS EVER IMAGINE WHAT WE REALLY NEED?

No, we must learn to imagine with a higher part of us which has nothing to do
with the mind. The mind can only think. The body and the soul know how to
imagine. Imagination is a very powerful thing, because it transcends the mind.
Imagination gives us the chance to dream about the future, to see what might
happen or not happen if we do or don’t do one thing or another. The mind can
only see what it thinks, and it can never think about what hasn’t already
happened.

SO THE MIND AS DEFINED THIS WAY CAN’T REALLY IMAGINE?

That’s right; mind can never imagine anything. Minds may imagine that they
can imagine. But they’re really imagining by thinking about what it might be
like to imagine. Do you see how confusing this can get, when you don’t listen
to your soul. The soul is very simple. When you listen to the soul, you merely
do what it tells you to do in the moment, and then in the next moment, and so
on. It’s a very simple, and much more effective, way to live.

THEN IT’S OKAY FOR THE MIND TO NOT KNOW WHAT WE’RE GOING TO DO
NEXT?
The mind never knows what we’re really going to do next. It may think it
knows, but it doesn’t know. It may think about what it might be like if we did
one thing or another. But it really doesn’t know, until after that thing has
already happened.

IF I FOLLOW MY GUT FEELINGS, WILL I ALWAYS DO WHAT’S RIGHT?

Yes, once you truly learn to follow your inner knowing, you’ll do what’s right
on the deeper level. You’ll do what you need to do, in order for your soul, your
psyche, your higher self, to experience what it needs. You’ll do what’s right, to
help you learn more about life and how you may live here more productively.
You’ll do what’s right, to learn how to be more of your expansive and aware
self while you’re here. You’ll do what you need to do to live a happier, more
fulfilled reality. Your ‘gut’ knows what you need to do. You only have to take
steps to get to the place where you can accurately feel it.
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Section 3

PERFECTION
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Chapter 8: What Is Love?

WHAT IS THE NATURE OF REAL LOVE?

Love is intended to be a way to connect oneself with the universe. You use the
energy of love, whether that energy comes to you through another person or
directly from the universe, as a way of feeling your body and your soul. In
these terms, love is really a way to sense one’s body and to learn about
oneself.

BUT DOESN’T LOVE ORIGINATE INSIDE US?

Love is inside the body, but not only in the body. Love can also come from
outside the body. This is the kind of love we call “universal” or “unconditional”
love. It comes from the universe, or from the Source of all-that-is. This kind of
love can be used for feeling the energies of the body. You can learn to release
energies that aren’t needed, by feeling the body deeply and letting love –
powerful energy that it is – carry them out of the body. In a sense, this is the
higher use of love.

ARE YOU SAYING MOST PEOPLE SEE LOVE AS SOMETHING IT ISN’T?

Most people see love as less than it is. Love and universal energy are really the
same thing. Any time one feels both human love and universal love at the same
time, one is in full contact with the universe. Most people feel human love and
ignore the greater possibilities.

SO IT’S NOT ENOUGH TO FEEL “ONLY” HUMAN LOVE?

Not if you want to be a complete being, one who can accurately sense both the
body and the higher self. Human energy is fine by itself, but it’s not the love
which one speaks of in expanded, or cosmic, terms. Human love is dependent
upon personal likes and dislikes, things that can’t be determined on a cosmic
level. Expanded love, the love that Rumi and other mystics have written about,
this is love which transcends all aspects of human reality.

DID RUMI MEAN THAT WE ARE ALL EXPANDED BEINGS?

Yes, exactly. He meant that universal love comes to all who expect to have it.
That there’s no way to avoid having love, if one lets all the love possible come
to them easily. You can’t avoid love unless you try to not have it.
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SO LOVE IS AVAILABLE TO US WITHOUT TRYING?

Yes, your natural state is love. To have all the love you could ever need, you
need only to relax and let it come to you.

WHY DON’T WE JUST HAVE WHAT WE NEED WITHOUT TRYING?

You can. But usually people believe they can’t have it. You must try really
hard, in order to not have something your universe makes readily available.
When you believe you don’t deserve something, you try to not have it, just to
validate your ill-gotten beliefs.

DO YOU MEAN WE MAY THINK WE DON’T DESERVE LOVE?

Yes, and this belief keeps you from having love. Most people work really hard
at having anything, including love, and the very work itself keeps them from
sensing their real needs and having them met by the loving universe. If they
would only relax, all that they need would be right there in front of them. But
people are taught at an early age that they can’t easily have what they want,
that they have to work hard for it.

WHAT WOULD IT BE LIKE IF PEOPLE LET THEMSELVES HAVE ALL THEY NEED?
It would be magnificent! People would simply allow themselves to be who they
are. They wouldn’t go anywhere in search of anything, because it would be
right there for them, wherever they are.

WHAT ARE PEOPLE SEARCHING FOR SO MUCH?

Generally, it is love itself. Because there’s this image in most people’s minds
that if love were so easy to have, life wouldn’t be worth living. So they try
really hard to have it, and it usually eludes them.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN BY THAT?

I mean that most people are confused about the need to work hard to have
anything of value. They think that if something comes easily to them, it won’t
be worth having. Isn’t that silly? Most people find that if they’re given
something, they don’t value it. They work hard for most things they don’t
need, and downplay what they’re given. People are very strange creatures in
this regard.

HOW DOES ONE RECEIVE ALL ONE NEEDS FROM THE UNIVERSE?
Simply relax and let it come to you. For instance, with love, you don’t need to
go anywhere to have love. You don’t need to attract anyone in particular to
you. You need only to know that you’re worthy of having love, and let the
universe give you all that it can give you. The key is that you allow yourself to
receive love when it comes to you.

WHY DO WE BLOCK LOVE FROM COMING TO US?

Again, it comes back to not feeling worthy. Self-esteem issues are at the basis
of most unhappiness. If people could only realize how beautiful they are, and
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stop trying so hard to have what they think they can’t easily have, this world
would be a very beautiful place. Until then, there will be confusion,
competition, unhappiness, and lots of regret, which comes from not having
what you think you should have allowed yourself to have. Your soul knows when
you’re unhappy, and it tries to give you what you need. But most people block
themselves from receiving it, so they can justify themselves in feeling poorly
about themselves. They actually cause the disenchantment by not having what
they believe they can never have. Isn’t that silly?

YES, BUT WHAT CAN WE DO TO STOP THIS?

First, you can stop thinking you’re not worthy of having anything you need. You
can stop believing you’re an inferior being. You are a grand and glorious being
who is fully capable of having all that you need. You can have all the love your
universe can give you. You can have everything you need. You can let Source
give you the essence of universal love, and you can enjoy it as much as
possible. And you don’t need to do anything to deserve it. It really all begins
with seeing yourself for who you are.

WHO AM I REALLY?
You are light. Yes, you’re a being of light. You come here as light. You leave
here as light. In between, you fall into the trap of believing you’re just this
physical being. You think you don’t exist on other planes, because you can’t
see them. But when you begin opening to the possibility that you’re much more
than a physical being, your light begins coming through. People notice this
change in you, even if you don’t notice it in yourself. The more your light
shines through, the more people want to experience it. This is who you are:
You’re a light being whose light is shining brightly. As people notice, they want
to be light, too. This is how each of you can teach all the others about light
and love.

DOES LIGHT MEAN THE SAME THING AS LOVE?

Yes, love is another word for light, or for the energy that runs all creation.
Light is a way of seeing the universe, and all other creation, as light or color.
Color is actually a very powerful medium. Light makes everything happen, on
some level. The sensation of love comes to individuals to let them know
they’re in the light. When you feel a state of love, you’re in touch with the
light of creation. You’re feeling your own connection with the all-that-is.

SO LIGHT COMES TO ALL WHO ASK FOR IT?

Yes, just like love, light comes to you when you ask for it. It comes to all who
want it. You can’t deny yourself having all the light of awareness you need to
live beautiful, exalted lives – unless you try to deny yourself. This is where the
rub happens. As I said before, people deny themselves having light and
knowledge and love because they don’t think they deserve them.
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Chapter 9: Low Self-Esteem & High Egos

WHERE DOES LOW SELF-ESTEEM GET ITS ROOTS?

Low self-esteem comes from a misperception that one shouldn’t be in human
form. When many people come here, it’s with the idea that they’re being
punished in some way by being here. There is this misperception that this life
isn’t as worthy as angelic life, etc. As if one shouldn’t be here at all, but has
been subjected to this place in order to learn lessons of some kind.

HOW WOULD SUCH AN IDEA ORIGINATE?

This belief got its start in the first beings who became conscious here. They
thought that because this was a harsh place to live, it meant they’d been
sentenced to it for something they did wrong. But this isn’t the case at all. This
place is simply what it is; there’s no need to feel mistreated, nor to leave here
before one can become more awake.

BUT WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO LIVE HERE?

It doesn’t have to be. People make it difficult by believing that it needs to be.
People often believe they’re being punished when they’re not. Most of the
time, one is simply living one’s life when something that appears “bad” may
happen to them. Yet, they’ve done nothing to cause this thing to happen; it’s
only happened. Do you see how this belief in cause-and-effect can lead one to
the conclusion that they must have done something to cause the event? Do you
see how your ego plays a part in this? As mentioned previously, the ego wants
to be in charge. So it “pretends” it caused the event to happen, when of course
it really had nothing to do with it. The ego pretends it can control events in
this way, so that it feels all powerful. But it’s not powerful at all, and it can
never control the events of this world.

ARE YOU SAYING THE EGO THINK IT MAKES THE WORLD HAPPEN?
Yes, the ego thinks the entire world revolves around it. It believes it must feel
powerful in order to justify its own existence. Once again, when you get rid of
the ego you dissolve all belief that you’re causing anything to happen, good or
bad. The ego is never in charge of your life, and the sooner you realize this,
the sooner you’ll discover yourself and get on with your real growth.
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DOES OUR SOUL GROW BECAUSE WE EXPECT OR DEMAND IT?

No, the soul grows when you let it grow. Your expectations have nothing to do
with it. You don’t even have to think about growth for it to be happening on
the soul level. You just need to stop impeding this growth with your thoughts
and actions. You need to let go of holding onto beliefs about how things should
be, and let things be as they will. Growth is a relatively easy thing, once you
stop thinking about how it should happen.

BUT IF I DON’T FOCUS ON GROWING, HOW WILL I KNOW I AM?

The point is to let go of the control of thinking you know how the growth
process should be happening. You can focus on allowing the process to continue
naturally, while at the same time letting it happen at its own pace. You don’t
have to control anything for it to happen according to the natural flow of the
universe. There’s nothing to do. All will happen in its own time. Yet, it is good
to focus on your body’s needs and learn what it’s like to be as fully conscious
of your growth as possible.

HOW DOES THE IDEA OF “KARMA” PLAY INTO LOW SELF-ESTEEM ISSUES?
Karma is a belief system, like so many other things here. People who believe in
karma often believe they don’t deserve to be free of karma they’ve built up
over the years, or lifetimes. So they go on “undeserving themselves into karmic
misery”. It becomes just another reason to feel badly about themselves,
another manmade illusion.

KARMA IS ALSO ILLUSION?

Sure, it’s another part of the illusion of this place. Karma is a manmade
phenomenon. It’s only real when they choose to believe in it. What people
don't usually recognize is that they can choose to not have karma if they want.
Karma is not a given here. It may seem real for those who believe in it. But for
much of the world, karma isn’t part of their belief system. If it’s “real” one
place on the planet and not “real” another place, then it’s part of human
creation, and that makes it an illusion.

DOES BELIEF IN KARMA FORM PEOPLE’S ACTIONS?

Yes, very much so. For instance, if you don’t believe in karma, such as if your
religion makes no mention of it, then you don’t do your life as if karma will
have any influence. You’ll do whatever you want with little fear or regret
related to karma. So karma, like everything else, is an illusion made manifest
by some people’s belief in it. A Buddhist may believe in it. A Christian may not.
However one believes pretty much determines what’s real for them. This is not
just about the concept of karma, of course. Belief systems of any kind will
generally have great influence on people’s actions.

IF ONE BELIEVES IN KARMA, CAN ONE STILL BREAK FREE OF IT?

Sure, stop believing in it. Your beliefs determine how you act. If you decide
that you’re free of karma, that you never again need to deal with it, then you
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are free of it. You can become karma-free by believing you’re karma-free. To
do this, you must become aware of the tremendous power of the thought
process, of how you determine your future by your beliefs today. You can
decide to not believe in anything and it will disappear out of your life.

DO YOU MEAN IF I DON’T WANT SOMETHING, I CAN JUST STOP BELIEVING IN

IT?
Yes, but you must be sincere about it, and you must decide for yourself how to
manage without it. If you decide you don’t want something in your life, and
you just think about not having it, that won’t necessarily eliminate it. But if
you decide for certain that you don’t want it, and you create for yourself an
entire life that’s free of it, then it will disappear from your life. You can
become free of karma or anything else by knowing that it’s not part of your
life.

CAN I “WILL” ANYTHING OUT OF MY LIFE?

I didn’t say will; I said know. Willing something out of your life is still part of
the thought process. Willing is the same as thinking, except with more effort.
Effort doesn’t get one anyplace, except back into the mind and all its
trappings.

DO YOU MEAN THAT WILL-POWER ISN’T GOOD?

I mean that will-power doesn’t exist in true reality. It’s another belief system,
based on fear that if you don’t have something, you won’t be okay. Will-power
is another illusion; it doesn’t exist for awakened beings. It’s a tool used by
those who are trying to discover themselves, to help them see that they can
make a difference in their lives. But ultimately it’s still buying into the illusion
that one must be in absolute control of one’s life. Will-power gets you only as
far as yourself, then you have to start all over again to learn what’s really
important, what really exists beyond the belief that you’re a separate and
independent being here.

IF WILL-POWER DOESN’T EXIST, HOW IS ONE TO CONTROL ONE’S LIFE?

You can’t control your life. You never could. You may think you can control
your life, but you can’t. There’s no way to control anything here. You must let
go of the idea that you can control your life before spirit can reach you and
help you. Control is, in effect, another tool caused by fear and the belief that
to be safe, one must not let others into one’s life. It keeps you cut off from
those who may be able to help you. People who believe in absolute control
usually aren’t much fun to be around. Control also keeps you trapped in your
own limited consciousness, apart from universal wisdom.

HOW CAN I STOP TRYING TO CONTROL MY LIFE?

You must stop thinking you can control anything. Just as if you let the belief in
karma affect your life, you can be controlled by the idea of being in control. If
you stop believing that anything can be controlled, you will notice that control
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and the need for it will vanish. In its place will arise the realization that all
vibrates here to a universal force of some kind, a force which assures that
everything will happen in and of its own time. You can’t control time and you
can’t control outcome. You must let go of control and let everything happen
when and how it does. Do you see how this is such a big issue for most people
here?

BUT IF WE’RE NOT IN CONTROL, HOW CAN WE BE SAFE?

No one can ever be safe. Who knows what may happen next for anyone? No one
knows. You may come to an end tomorrow. You can never guarantee your
safety, and there’s no reason to try. Safety is also an illusion. It may happen; it
may not. Safety comes only when the universal force ensures it, not when you
think you know how to have it, which is another way of saying “control”.

WHAT ABOUT THOSE WHO THINK THEY’RE IN CONTROL?

Control is only effective for those who think they’re in control, and then it’s
only as effective as they believe it to be. Yet, it’s still only illusionary on their
part. Problem is, something may happen which makes them feel out-of-control,
and they lose their imagined sense of balance. They can’t deal with feeling like
they’re not in control so they lose their bearings in this uncontrollable world.

HOW ARE WE TO LIVE HERE IF WE’RE UNSAFE?

Human reality is an unpredictable thing. It comes and it goes. You’re here now
and then you’re no longer here. But you have nothing to fear, nothing can
threaten your true essence. You can be what you are all the time, whether
you’re here in human form or not. Safety, or security, plays no part in your
life. You go and do what you do here, whether you believe in the need for
some kind of imagined security or not.

BUT AM I NOT MORE SECURE IF I CONTROL CERTAIN FACTORS IN MY LIFE?

Nope. You can do anything you want to control any aspect of life, and you’re
still not going to guarantee your safe existence. You can do anything at all, and
you’ll still be at the mercy of cosmic forces. You can never guarantee anything.
Trying to guarantee your future is as fruitless as trying to predict how many
stars there are in the sky, or grains of sand on all the beaches in the cosmos.
You can’t know any of this. It’s better to let go and let reality come to you as
it does. Safety is an illusion that’s so far from obtainable that it’s a colossal
waste of time to even think about it. If humans could learn that they don’t
need to be in control, they’d free up great amounts of energy which could be
used for far better pursuits.

WHY THEN DON’T WE STOP TRYING TO BE IN CONTROL?

Because most people are afraid to live out-of-control lives. Remember how
much you once tried to control your life? How you were afraid to deal with
things or people or places which were threatening to you for one reason or
another? Remember how you made what you thought were mistakes because
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you weren’t in control, and then quit doing those things so you wouldn’t make
the same mistake again? These were all incidents in which you believed that
bad, or non-productive, things happened to you because you were out-of-
control. But control had nothing to do with these occurrences. You’re really
free to make any “mistakes” you want here, without being in control.

BUT DIDN’T THOSE THINGS AT LEAST WASTE MY TIME?

No, you don’t really “waste” any time here at all. Remember, time doesn’t
really exist beyond the human plane, so you can waste any of it you want.
Since time and control aren’t real, you don’t need to be in a hurry to do
anything, or to control your outcome at all. You can do whatever you want
here, without worrying about something “bad” happening. If something other
than what you may have wished for happens, it’s only because that’s what the
human-thought-created world mandated. It’s not because you did anything
“wrong” at all. Wrong is not a real concept; we only judge outcomes as good or
bad depending on our prior notion of how things should be. Do you see what I
mean?

YES, BUT STILL, I’M WONDERING HOW PEOPLE FALL INTO THE TRAP OF
BELIEVING THEY NEED TO BE IN CONTROL?
Basically they don’t know any better. They think controlling things will keep
them safe. They think control is a good thing. Others tell them it is, so they
believe it. They keep making the same efforts to control things, and they think
it’s working if nothing really bad happens to them. They settle for a relatively
challenge-free existence in the belief that it’s safer than doing potentially risky
things, even though these things may bring them great satisfaction. Most
people settle for fairly boring lives, in the name of control, instead of taking
risks that could bring them great joy. The amount of joy in one’s life is usually
equivalent to the amount of risk one takes. Taking risks definitely takes one
out of the realm of control, or the belief in control.

IS OUR HIGHER SELF A RISK-TAKER?

You bet it is. Your spirit, or essential self, takes risks all the time. On the
spiritual level of reality, there’s no such thing as control, and we’ve quit
pretending there is, so we take risks constantly. If you let it, your spirit may
even head you down blind alleys just to see what may happen. On this level,
we know nothing bad can really happen, even though it may seem that way on
the third dimensional plane. Spirit wants you to learn that it’s impossible to
live a controlled life. It wants you to see yourself for who you are, and the only
way to do that is to stop trying to control anything. Spirit wants you to discover
how magical existence really is, by finding new and enlightening ways to live.

SO A SPIRITUAL LIFE IS A CONTROL-FREE LIFE?

Yes, in terms of human control. Of course, there is a great force “in control” of
everything. But yet again, the idea of control isn’t really an accurate way to
see existence. It goes way beyond the idea that anything is in control of
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anything else. You see, the very concept of control is, once again, a product of
human imagination.
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Chapter 10: The Limitless Soul

HOW DOES THE UNIVERSE FUNCTION?

Well, this is a rather large question, but let’s look at it for a moment. First, the
universe, as we’ve said before, isn’t what people see it as being. Your universe
as a sort of boxlike reality bounded by stars and planets and invisible space and
ending who-knows-where, this universe is an illusion created to help the mind
understand its own reality. The true universe as we refer to it is really an
enormous compilation of many realities. You can imagine any aspect of reality
you want as being the real reality. But anytime you shorten the imagination by
believing one universe is everything, you break down the entire process to the
point where it no longer makes sense. Do you understand?

YES, BUT ISN’T THE UNIVERSE ONE REALITY ON SOME LEVEL?

Yes, it is, yet it’s such a big thing that the mind can never understand it. Your
mind can only see what you perceive to be reality. That is a far limiting reality,
in terms of the all-that-is, which is really an enormously large proposition. Any
time one endeavors to see the entire universe, one must stop at a place where
the mind can understand it. Or go so far beyond this place that the mind will
give up and let you have whatever experience you have. The mind is only
capable of seeing pieces of the universe, so you have to settle for these little
glimpses for as long as you’re attached to human reality.

WHY AREN’T PEOPLE CAPABLE OF SEEING MORE?

Humans are designed to function within this particular reality in which you find
yourselves. If you could see everything, you’d have no interest in staying in this
limited world. There’s so much more to existence than you can realize here
that this world would never satisfy you. Yet, you can expand your
consciousness and live relatively free and expressive lives here.

WHY DO WE CHOOSE TO LIVE IN A LIMITED REALITY?

To experience all that you can experience in limitation; then to experience an
unlimited reality and see the difference. It’s as if you can’t know what black is
without seeing white, etc. Black and white mixed together would just seem
like a big mix of color of some kind, but you’d have no context in which to view
either. Black is black, as long as you believe it is, and white is white. But
sometimes black can be white and white can be black. Unless you’re clear
about which is which, your human mind can become quite confused, even when
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it envisions an unlimited universe. All physical realities such as that on earth

exist to give you, as the soul, the chance to experience limited realities. This is
so that when you leave this reality, you’ll have a better understanding and
appreciation of the wonder of limitless living.

ONCE I HAVE THAT APPRECIATION, CAN I BE DONE WITH LIMITATION?

Yes, but most people don’t do it easily. Most have to get really tired of limited
living before they can move into limitless reality. It’s just the way the soul
experiences things and grows, by experiencing all that’s available and making a
choice to experience more when it’s ready. Your soul can experience
everything in the universe at one time, but you need to allow it to happen, and
this is very difficult to do while one is in human form.

HOW DOES THE SOUL EXPERIENCE EVERYTHING AT ONCE?

By being everything at once. By living in a reality which includes all
experience. By expressing itself as if there’s no such thing as reality, and
certainly not any one reality that defines everything. The soul is limitless and
indefinable. You can never define what the soul is doing or being. It’s just the
soul; it goes everywhere and does everything. Your soul is always on the move,
looking, seeking, defining and redefining, giving and receiving love and light,
and never looking back because the soul doesn’t know how to look back. The
soul only moves forward. It has no conception of the past.

IF THERE’S NO PAST, HOW CAN LIMITLESS LIVING OCCUR?

It occurs within a frame of reference in which past is something that only
occurs in third dimensional worlds, such as yours. Past is limited to belief
systems in which there is cause and effect, or linear existence. Past occurs
because people believe in it. If you stopped believing in a past today, you’d no
longer have one. Sure, there would still be people around you who believe in a
past, but you wouldn’t have to believe in it. You could live your life each
moment, in the context that there was nothing that went before. This might
get you in trouble with some people, who insist that the past is real. But you
don’t have to pay much attention to them. In limitless living, everything
happens at once. There’s no beginning and no end. It just happens; that’s all.

HOW CAN EVERYTHING HAPPEN AT ONCE?

This is one of those concepts which the mind can’t grasp, since it understands
only linear reality. The mind thinks everything has to have a beginning and an
end. Otherwise, it can’t even see it. The mind sees only beginnings and
endings; therefore, life as you know it on this planet is full of cause-and-effect
reality. Everything ends and begins. But that’s not the way the real universe
functions at all. Beginnings and endings are on top of each other. Everything is
happening all the time; there is no beginning and no end. All that’s ever
happened is happening right now, starting and stopping simultaneously. It’s
actually a bit confusing to explain until one sees it for oneself.
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DO I HAVE A BEGINNING OR ENDING?

No, of course not. That’s just an illusion created by the mind, or ego, to try to
keep things in a perspective which it can understand. The ego has a lot to gain
by the idea that things will end someday. This is why it tries to keep such a
tight reign on your life, because it believes it has to do this to keep you safe. If
the mind and the ego don’t even exist, there’s no reason to control anything. If
you can never end, the mind has no role in any of this, because it knows it’s
going to end when you leave here. The mind is a product of physical reality, so
it has no role in a non-physical world. Do you see how this aspect of mind keeps
you trapped in a limited reality, as long as you believe it exists?

YES, AND SO THE MIND BELIEVES IT’S THE ONLY THING THAT’S REAL?
Sure, the mind thinks it’s the important part of you, because it’s the only part
that can think like it does. It sees your body and thinks, “this is just another
part of me”. The mind is very provincial in this respect; it thinks that all it sees
or knows is all there is. What a very limited and judgmental creature it is! Your
mind gets you into trouble when you see the world through its eyes only.
You’re much more than the mind can ever see.

IS THE MIND LIMITED TO THIS REALITY TO KEEP ITSELF SAFE?

Yes, the mind thinks that in order to be safe, it must pretend that this reality is
all there is. If it were to see unlimited reality, it would become very confused.
It wouldn’t know how to do the many things it needs to do to keep you healthy
and alive. Your mind does perform many necessary functions for you, functions
which keep you alive each moment. In that role, it’s invaluable to you. The
problem comes when we see the world through the mind’s eyes, and begin
thinking that’s all there is to anything.

WHEN DID PEOPLE START SEEING REALITY THIS WAY?

When the mind got control of the organism by convincing it that if it weren’t in
control something bad would happen to the entire being. Do you see how you
have feared your demise in the past? This was because the mind had control,
and told you that you would die if it didn’t keep you alive. You became a slave
to the mind and its illusions of reality. You forgot how to see all of reality
because the mind blinded you from a greater vision. The mind likes to keep
things under control by convincing us that it sees everything for us. Ultimately,
the mind created the ego to help it keep everything in check.

WHAT PART DOES THE EGO PLAY IN THIS ILLUSION?

It tells you that you’re too frail or stupid or something to control your own
destiny; that it must be in charge if you’re to live here. The ego convinces the
rest of your being that the only way to be here is to trust it and give it all your
power. The ego is actually a great schemer. It convinces you that it knows all
there is about life and that you should follow it forever. Of course, the problem
again is that the ego doesn’t go forever. It’s also a product of third dimensional
reality, and this is the only dimension which it can ever know. “Forever” leaves
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the ego in the dust. Being a product of the mind, the ego goes no further than
the mind, and it knows this. It knows that once the mind is gone, it’s history,
so it tries to prolong the illusion of the mind’s reality as long as it can. When
you decide to live ego-free, you’re killing this imagined part of you, and the
ego doesn’t like this prospect. It tries to keep you in slavery to its whims and
opinions.

WHY DOESN’T THE EGO SEE MORE?

It can only see what the mind sees, and the mind can never see what’s not part
of this physical world. Both are products of the human imagination. The mind
and the ego are in this thing together. You as the expansive being you really
are must be the one to see more and tell them to leave you alone. You must
access your larger scale of reality, and the mind must learn to do its physical
functions and stay out of your higher affairs. Then, the mind can tell the ego
that it’s no longer needed. Since the ego was created by the mind in theory to
keep you safe, once you’ve told the mind that you’re safe without its help, the
ego will dissolve and you won’t have to deal with its conniving again.

HOW DOES THE EGO CREATE PROBLEMS FOR US?

The ego tells you lots of things that aren’t true, in order to keep you in its
camp. It believes it’s helping you, so it tells you how bad you are, how stupid
you are, how inept you are, how others will take advantage of you, how you
shouldn’t take risks, how the visions of your higher self are false, etc. It tells
you all these things in the name of keeping you safe, but what it really does is
keep you confused and weak; until you’re ready to discard it and live a
limitless reality. I recommend that you explore living a limitless reality,
because it’s a lot more fun and rewarding than depending on this imaginary ego
to run your life for you.
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Chapter 11: Living Between the Boxes

HOW DOES LIMITLESS LIVING TRANSCEND HUMAN REALITY?

Limitless living allows you to feel all of yourself. You see all of reality, at least
to the amount that you’re capable. Since one is always growing and expanding,
you can see only that which you’re capable of seeing each moment. Reality is
really like a limitless number of boxes, or energies, or images. Your reality may
be only one of those boxes. You can look inside any number of boxes you want.
Eventually, you come to decide that the boxes aren’t where it’s at, and you
exist outside the boxes. You’re everything at once. This is when the limitless
part becomes your true reality. You can be anywhere, or everywhere at once.
There’s no need to limit yourself to thinking that this box is it, or that box is it.
All the boxes are it; that’s all that matters. Once you transcend human reality,
you have no need to live in a box at all. You can see all that there is to the
best of your ability and decide how and where you will live in each moment.

WHY DID I CHOOSE TO BE IN THIS PARTICULAR BOX FOR NOW?

You came here to learn the lessons of human consciousness regarding how to
give love to others, and how to receive more love for yourself. You’re learning
those lessons nicely and when it’s time to move on, you’ll take with you the
new perspectives you’ve gained by living here. So you see there’s nothing
wrong with third dimensional living; it can actually be pretty nice, as long as
one doesn’t get attached to it being the only reality.

DO PEOPLE USUALLY LEAVE HERE WISER THAN WHEN THEY CAME?

Well, not really, in terms of limitless living. Most people come and go without
really learning much of value. This may sound depressing, but it’s pretty much
the case. Most people are content to live their human lives in that box and not
even think about the possibility of there being anything larger. In spite of the
glorious pontificating of some humans, most are content to ignore all of it and
live their basic little lives. It’s only when a being gets tired of coming and going
and begins to realize that there is something more, that one makes the
necessary effort to expand beyond this place.

IS THIS PROCESS SPEEDING UP NOW, THIS AWAKENING TO ONESELF?

Well, in one context, not really. This third dimensional reality will always be
here, one way or another. It serves a purpose which will never go away,
because remember, there is no beginning and ending. Since there is just
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“now”, this particular aspect of now will always be here serving the souls who
need this reality.

BUT AREN’T OTHERS WAKING UP FASTER?

Yes, there is a certain quickening now occurring. Many are waking up to
themselves, perhaps at a quicker pace than ever here. At least, there is more
opportunity now on a global scale to awaken to one’s true reality. Yet, those
who do transcend this reality and leave it behind will always be relatively few
in number. That’s how this world’s existence will continue, because many more
will always be coming here to experience this third dimensional reality than
will be leaving here for good.

BUT ISN’T THIS PLACE CHANGING A LOT NOW?

Actually, this third dimensional world never really changes, in terms of major
changes to its human-derived configurations. Sure, there are shifts and
adjustments, but mostly things go on as always on the worldly scale. You
change and grow; others change and grow; and some of you move on to more
expanded realities. But most beings stay in this reality, coming here time after
time and experiencing this reality to the best of their abilities. The idea that
this reality will end soon is a concept perpetrated by the minds of those who
want to be someplace else, and may very well be some place else before long.

WHAT ABOUT THE PEOPLE WHO DO CHOOSE TO LEAVE HERE?

They will simply leave and be someplace else. But all this will remain in effect
someplace in the universe for those who choose to continue experiencing it.
It’s really irrelevant where such a third dimensional world exists, for space
itself is really an illusion and there’s basically no “here” or “there”, only that
there’s a place that serves every mind and every level of evolution.

IF THIS WORLD IS NEVER GOING TO CHANGE, WHAT’S THE POINT OF BEING

HERE?
It’s to learn about yourself and grow and become your limitless being and when
you’re ready, move on to a far less limited and more enjoyable reality. That’s
the purpose of life anyplace. You can’t stay for long in a world where you’re no
longer receiving the lessons or rewards of that world. When you’re truly ready
to move to a new reality, you will.

HOW WILL I KNOW WHEN IT’S TIME TO MOVE ON?

It makes no sense to be where you can’t be your real self and do your real
work. You must be free to express yourself as you truly are, and limitless
reality gives you that opportunity. You move to where you need to be and
express yourself as you need to, in order to be the highest form of you that you
can be. You will always next experience the level of reality for which you are
ready.
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THIS SEEMS DEPRESSING THAT SO MANY SOULS CHOOSE TO REMAIN HERE.

You needn’t be discouraged at the thought that many others continue to come
here and learn the lessons of this place. These are their lessons. While it’s true
that you’re done with many of these lessons and this planet no longer serves
you in the old ways, you must realize that many choose to continue with these
lessons. For them this place is still perfect, even though it may seem painful
and chaotic on the human level.

CAN I DO MY LIFE DIFFERENTLY WHILE I’M STILL HERE?

Yes, you can just decide, and then live differently. You don’t need to actually
leave this physical reality, in order to live differently, to be more aware. Many
beings have lived more expansive lives here. Most don’t, but it is possible. You
don’t need to die physically to begin living in new ways. Do you understand
that death is really only an illusion, another concept in which you don’t need
to believe?

YES, I KNOW THAT NOW, BUT WHY DO SO MANY BELIEVE IN IT?

The idea of death is another illusion that people believe keeps them safe here.
They cling to the idea that because they’re living here, they must be doing
something right. Like, pity those poor souls who can’t be here, because they’re
lost in hell or some other imaginary place! As long as one believes there’s
somewhere worse, one’s ego has them convinced that they’d better be really
good and follow its instructions, in order to not fall off the beaten track.

WHY DOES THIS HAPPEN?

This trick keeps one locked into old ways of seeing reality, because once one
tries to do things beyond the norm, it brings up the fear that they’ll be out-of-
control, that they won’t know what they’re doing. Again, it’s the ego and the
mind conspiring to convince the person that they’re in charge, and that the
person should never do anything to rock the boat. In this belief system, death
would be the ultimate outcome of doing something wrong. It’s a very vicious
circle. If you do anything your mind and ego don’t mandate, you might die, and
if you die, you’re going to hell or some other unknown frightening place.
You’re hooked; until you tell the mind and ego to get lost, that you’ll take your
chances with eternity your own way. This is a much more preferred way to live!
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Chapter 12: Recognizing Your Perfection

WHAT IS THE ULTIMATE NATURE OF HUMAN LIFE?

Human life is actually another illusion. Remember, you’re only here to learn
how to transcend this place, to give love to all those in the expanded universe,
and to move on with full awareness of the existence of a greater reality.
Therefore, the very act of living here is part of the illusion which facilitates
these things in happening. Yet, you can live this illusion as well as possible, and
then move on with the full satisfaction of having lived perfectly here.

WHAT IS PERFECT LIVING?

Perfect living is being in a state in which one recognizes that they’re fully
here. You can learn to live here to your greatest fulfillment, just as you can
live that way anyplace else that exists. You live perfectly when you realize that
this life is enough, that you can be your perfect self here whenever you choose.

YOU MEAN I CAN CHOOSE TO BE PERFECT RIGHT NOW?

Actually, you are perfect right now. You can never be less than perfect. But
your life goes better when you realize that you're perfect.

IF WE'RE ALL PERFECT, WHY IS THERE SO MUCH IMPERFECTION HERE?

This is only because you "perceive" that there's imperfection in this world, or
that you are imperfect in some way. There is really nothing imperfect about
this world. All is happening in exactly the perfect way, for those here to have
the experiences they need. You and everyone here can choose whatever
experiences they want on some level.

BUT AREN'T THESE EXPERIENCES OFTEN "BAD" FOR THEM?

Perhaps, depending on how you look at it. People's experiences may be "bad" if
you're concerned only with their physical circumstances. But once you consider
the bigger picture, their soul growth for instance, you see that everything
that's happening here is complete perfection. Each being is having experiences
which help him or her grow and learn what they need on higher planes of
reality.

CAN'T WE JUST CIRCUMVENT THIS PLACE AND MOVE ON TO A HIGHER

PLANE?
Nope, you came here to acquire the lessons of this world, and you can't leave
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until you're done. There's nowhere to go anyway, and if you did go there before
you were ready you wouldn't know what to do.

WHY NOT, IF WE'RE EVERYTHING ALL THE TIME?

Yes, that is true; you are everything all the time. But you don't yet have full
personal clarity about that. You know yourself in human terms because you see
yourself when you look in the mirror. But until one is ready to really see
oneself in more expansive terms, one is pretty much stuck here, from lifetime
to lifetime. You can't leave until you've fully learned what it's like to be human,
and until you know with complete certainty that it’s time to move on. If you
did find a way out of this place before you were ready to move on, you’d come
right back.

BUT WHAT IF I'M TIRED OF BEING HUMAN?

Doesn't matter. You're not done until you're done, no matter what you may
think or say. You're here until you've learned the lessons of this reality. If
you’re merely frustrated with some aspect of life, it usually means you still
need to work on that aspect somehow. Only when you’re sure you’re done can
you really move on to another realm.

HOW LONG MIGHT THAT TAKE?

Takes as long as it needs to take. You learn what you learn and you move on
when you've really gotten it, not when you "think" you've gotten it.

WHY IS THAT?
Because, remember, this place is perfect. If you're still seeing the illusions and
you think they're real, then you haven't learned all this world has to teach you.
You haven’t learned to see through all the illusions.

TO SEE THAT ILLUSION CAN NEVER BE REAL?

Yes, and that in an "unreal" world, there is still reality somewhere. But you
have to look deeply to find it, deeply within yourself, and deeply within the
world itself.

HOW DO I DO THAT?
By expressing yourself as you truly are. By ignoring the illusion and doing your
life the way you need to do it. This is how one discovers perfection. Or rather
allows their own perfection to shine through.

BUT SOME PEOPLE SEEM FAR FROM PERFECT HERE.

Yes, this is because they haven't discovered their perfection. They're still
working on seeing through the illusion to the place where they make perfect
sense. If they could only ignore the illusion, the perceived imperfection, they
would see that they've never been anything but perfect. Just like you.
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BUT WHY DO I SEEM TO HAVE SUCH IMPERFECT THOUGHTS?

Because you're still seeing them as imperfect. You're still believing that if you
have thoughts that seem less than loving and the like, that you must be a bad
person. This is training, conditioning of this world. People have told you that
you were bad if you had “bad” thoughts and did “bad” things. But there’s only
what's going around. You have no choice but to hear what others are thinking
and what the world is thinking. All humans have less-than-perfect thoughts.
But, remember, those thoughts are only part of the illusion, so they don't
define you any more than anything else here does.

BUT IF MY THOUGHTS ARE IMPERFECT, HOW CAN I KNOW I'M PERFECT?

It’s likely that you're no longer trusting your thoughts to be an accurate
representation of you. That you're ready to go beyond thought. That's exactly
what you must do to recognize your perfection. You must completely let go of
letting thoughts define you in any way. You must let go of attachment to
thinking and discover the wisdom inside you. This is wisdom which comes to
you from your universe, from way beyond human reality and human thoughts.
It's the wisdom of Source. You can learn to recognize your perfection in the
inner wisdom that comes to you from Source.

DO YOU MEAN I CAN BECOME PERFECT BY REALIZING I'M NOT JUST HUMAN?
Yes, because you can see yourself as a higher being, you can converse with
higher consciousness. You have always been able to do this, you just had your
focus in the wrong place, on those lower thoughts.

ARE HUMANS A LOWER FORM OF LIFE?

No, not at all. Human life is what you make of it. You are lower, you are
higher, you are whatever you see yourself as being. We just use the word
"lower" to describe the thoughts which are products of the illusion. Higher
knowing comes from Source, from the place of universal truth. This knowing
can never be compared with illusion.

SO PERFECTION IS KNOWING ONE IS PERFECT?

That's it. And being able to express one's perfection in all that one does here.
That's all there is to being here. Are you ready to express yourself this way? Are
you ready to be what you are, and let go of the illusion? When you're ready to
stop trying, and do what you're here to do each moment, you recognize your
perfection and you’ll be ready for new, more expansive experiences.

IS THIS WHEN I’LL BE FREE TO MOVE ON TO SOMEPLACE ELSE?

Yes, but remember there’s no hurry to get anyplace. You can enjoy being here
for as long as you’re here. Then you can do anything you want, because you
will always know what to do. You’ll be free to be wherever you will be next.
You will be perfect everywhere that you are and you’ll recognize that you exist
everywhere at once. You’ll be on your way to total recognition of your own
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supreme being-ness, and you’ll never need to look back again. This is when
you’re on the path to perfect living.
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Section 4

CHOICES
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Chapter 13: Separation from the Ultimate

WHAT IS THE NATURE OF REALITY?

There is no reality. Reality on one plane of existence is no more real that
reality on another plane. Your existence in this world is merely a matter of
your imagination. You don’t exist here in any particular form. You only imagine
that you do. When you give up the need to see yourself as one thing or
another, you begin to see things as always changing, always malleable, the way
they really are. This is true for ultimate reality as well as for your limited
earthly reality. All is constantly changing.

THEN HOW DOES ONE KNOW WHAT TO IMAGINE IS REAL?

You can imagine anything you want. There’s no limit on the imagination,
except that put there by you and your culture. If you wish to imagine
something totally outlandish by cultural norms, you can. Nothing stops you
except your ability to dream. And, by the way, dreaming happens just as much
while you’re awake as it does while you’re asleep. There’s really no difference.

ARE DREAMS AS REAL AS THOUGHTS?

Yes, in fact dreams are thoughts in a dreaming format. When you’re asleep,
your thoughts may come to you in pictures, but they’re still thoughts. As with
all thoughts, they may be real in terms of reflection of something that’s
actually happening in your life, or they may be your imagination. You can
imagine whatever you want. The key is to pay attention to your thoughts and
dreams and imagine how to work out your life challenges by clearing everything
that’s holding you back from being your authentic self. This is the self that
goes far beyond all universes and imagined realities. You can become that self
with commitment to ultimate truth.

WHAT IS ULTIMATE TRUTH?

It is the belief that you’re part of something far greater, and completely
indefinable, but still something that exists in some unknowable form.

HOW DO WE ACCESS THIS TRUTH?

By being ourselves and not stopping when things get difficult. We must be
diligent in our beliefs and not give up the search for truth, no matter what
anyone says, or what any of our own voices or fears have to say. We must
search for everything that keeps us from the truth and eradicate those things
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from our body, our mind, and our soul. We must never stop seeking the truth
even when we think we’ve found it.

WHY MUST WE KEEP DILIGENTLY SEEKING TRUTH?

Because the belief that we’ve found all the answers is another of the ego’s
ways of trying to convince us to stop searching. Discovering the truth is a very
threatening thing to the ego, which seeks to make us content with the way
things are. If we keep seeking beyond ego, beyond mind, they both lose
control. We have to break free of the need to know, label, see, or even seek,
anything, before we can go into the unknown where the real truth exists.

HOW DOES ONE SEEK WHAT THEY CAN NEVER KNOW?

By continually understanding that you’re not seeking a truth you can label, but
rather something you can never know. Your search itself represents the
journey, not the perceived arrival at anything in particular. Knowing that you
can never really arrive at that place shouldn’t be frustrating to you. Instead,
you can see the journey itself as the whole point of your existence; the joy of
searching for a greater and greater reality which can bring you new realizations
and new connections with the all-that-is. Search with an open mind and a vast
joy at the prospects of becoming more of who you are with each step along the
way.

WHERE, IF ANYWHERE, IS ULTIMATE REALITY?

It’s nowhere. There’s really nowhere to go. You are as close to ultimate
reality, in terms of location, as you’ll ever be. Essentially, you can sit down
right where you are and be in the perfect center of the universe. You’re the
center of your own universe. Every being, whether in human form or not, is at
the center of the universe. There’s nowhere to go to be who you are, and
really there’s nothing to learn. You are the center of your universe, and you
can never be anywhere else.

BUT DOESN’T THIS MAKE IT CROWDED IN THE MIDDLE?

You bet it does. In fact, we’re all here on top of each other, though most don’t
realize it. The center of the universe is actually the only place that exists. The
belief that there’s all those trillion of miles or light years or something
between this planet or galaxy and the next one is only a product of the fertile
human imagination. Actually, everything is right here together. We’re all in
this together, more than you may ever realize as long as you’re in human form.

WHY DON’T WE REALIZE THIS?

Because as humans you’re limited, in a sense, to human realization, which
includes the combined imaginations of all who have ever walked this planet.
You see the combined imaginations of the scientists who believed one thing or
another, and all the beliefs and fears of all the people who’ve been here. You
experience their imaginations and fears and beliefs expressed as prevailing
opinion about the universe and all aspects of life. Eventually, if you want, you
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can begin seeing things in a different way. You can see yourself as part of all
that is, and you can break free of the belief that you’re just a meaningless,
struggling little human trying to make it in an unfriendly confusing world.

IS THERE A REALITY THAT MAKES MORE SENSE?

No, unless you mean the reality inside you, which you can use to represent your
own reality however you wish to see it. Because you’re at the center of your
universe, and because your imagination is the only one that matters, you’re
free to imagine whatever you want. Of course, some people’s imaginations get
them into trouble with the prevailing culture, if they respond to their
imaginations in ways which aren’t desirable to that culture. You must be
careful not to respond to the imagination in these ways, if you want to stay
physically comfortable. But you may choose to imagine whatever you want
about reality, to dream whatever you want, to create your own reality based
on your imagination, as free as possible from all others.

HOW CAN I SAFELY BELIEVE WHATEVER I WANT ABOUT REALITY?

Notice that I didn’t say “believe”; I said “imagine”. We’re drawing a distinction
here. Imagine means that you can dream of anything you want. You can
imagine that the world may be one way or another. But “believe” means that
you have a formed belief about how things are. Beliefs keep you from
dreaming, from imagining. Beliefs are concrete ideas; there’s no room for
reverie and expansion. Beliefs are usually not malleable; they’re formed in
stone. When you believe something, you’re usually not open to considering the
possible expanded state of the entire universe and all it has to tell you. Beliefs
are not good things to have. Imagination, on the other hand, keeps you open to
all the possibilities of life and existence on all levels of being.

SO YOU’RE SAYING THE IMAGINATION KEEPS US SAFE IN SOME WAY?

Yes, when you imagine in the way I’m speaking of here, you’re imagining an
expanded reality. Focusing on such a reality keeps you safe, in that you remain
open to all possibilities. No matter what happens in your earthly reality, you’re
free to expand your consciousness and continue exploring all of reality. And
remember, I use the word “reality” here only as a way to assist your mind in
understanding that there’s something much larger than what you presently see.

MUST I LET GO OF THE MIND TO SEE THIS LARGER REALITY?

Yes. You must let go of the idea that the mind sees what’s real. The mind can
never see what’s real, because there’s really nothing that’s real. Minds have a
difficult time understanding that nothing is real, because they seek to label
and define everything. Once you break free of the mind’s limited imagination,
you open to all the possibilities. You must pretty much destroy the mind, or at
least its hold on your visioning process, before you can begin to see expanded
reality.
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WHERE DO WE GO NEXT, AFTER BREAKING FREE OF THE MIND?

You begin to expand your reality by visualizing something larger. Let your
awareness grow and wander; going wherever it needs. Let it travel out to other
universes, other realities and bring back to you internal experiences which are
not represented by your present physical reality. Let everything expand and
reach out, letting go of all “solid” parts of yourself for a time. As long as you
hold onto the idea that the dense physical body is real, you can never expand
far enough to see greater reality.

ISN’T IT FRIGHTENING TO BEGIN LOSING TOUCH WITH THE WORLD?

It can be, and this fear is what often stops people before they’ve begun.
Meditation is one form of learning to release the body and mind and all their
conditioning, and allowing your awareness to travel out to where more answers
can be found. But these answers rarely come in the form of concrete solutions
to anything. This is one reason the mind becomes confused and frightened. It
expects concrete answers, and when it doesn’t get them, it thinks you’re off-
track and tries to bring you back. You must quiet the mind and assure it that
you’re on the right path, and let it rest while you seek higher forms of
knowing. Let your consciousness expand slowly, and reach out to where you
need to go, without taking the mind along.

HOW DO I CONVINCE THE MIND TO STAY BEHIND?

You don’t have to convince it of anything. Minds are hard to convince. Simply
assure it that you know what you’re doing, and you’ll be gone for awhile. Then
let yourself relax and expand your consciousness, using whatever paths or
techniques you’ve learned.

DOES THE MIND LISTEN IN TO WHAT WE LEARN IN EXPANDED

CONSCIOUSNESS?
Oh yes, the mind listens to everything. But it doesn’t need to act on anything.
You can assure it that action is not necessary this time, that you’re only there
for the journey itself, that there’s no reason to formulate opinions or courses
of action based on what you’re learning. The trick here is that the mind, and
your entire physical being, is trained from the beginning to know what you’re
doing and where you’re going. You’re taught to know yourself, your needs,
your career focus, everything. The idea of not being on top of everything is
difficult for the mind to accept. But you must accept this need to be out-of-
control, beyond control really, before you can wander the universe for higher
realization.

CAN THE MIND LEARN TO COME WITH US AND STAY RELAXED?

Nope. The mind can never go where you need to go, because it’s a product of
third dimensional physical reality. It can never have a concept of ultimate
reality, and will always be confused at the thought of it. You must leave the
mind behind entirely, before you can expand to the level where you’ll begin to
discover the ultimate.
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BUT IF THERE’S NO SUCH THING AS ULTIMATE REALITY, HOW DO WE KNOW

WHERE WE’RE GOING?
You’re not going anywhere. Remember, you’re already at the center of your
universe. I speak only in terms of journey and path, etc. as a way of defining
the process of going from where you are, or believe you are, in physical reality,
to a place of no-place, no physical reality. It’s a journey to a place that
essentially doesn’t exist, at least not in terms that can ever be defined.

HOW CAN I KNOW WHEN I’VE FOUND SUCH AN ABSTRACT PLACE?

You’ll recognize it. You’ve been there many times in your own inner journeys.
You know what it’s like. You’ve found the center of your universe through
many processes and have seen many visions and non-visions of reality. You
know the sensation and the awareness. You’ve never been able to fully define
or hold onto what you’ve found, but you’ve continued to travel and explore
and you’ve seen quite a lot about yourself and this indefinable reality. You’ve
traveled a long ways with no map to guide you. There can never be a map,
because there is no single way to go. But you can be guided by the wonder of
adventure, once you’ve broken free of the limited earthly place and its
dominating human consciousness.
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Chapter 14: Belonging Where We Are

ONCE I’M FREE OF EVERYTHING, WHY DO I NEED TO COME BACK?

You don’t. You could keep right on going, if you wanted. You come back
because in some way you’re afraid of what it might be like if you keep going.
You go as far as you’re comfortable in going, and then when you believe it’s
time to come back, you do. Your imagination is controlled only by your own
willingness to explore it. Look at people like Einstein, Jules Verne,
Nostradamus, many others. These people went as far as their imaginations
could take them; then came back with different views of realities and
possibilities. They helped rewrite human history and the human imagination
with their expanded visions. This is how human reality is expanded. People
such as yourself bring back new pieces to consider and the human experience
continues to grow. Eventually, perhaps the human experience will grow to such
a degree that it’s no longer necessary to believe it’s separate from the all-that-
is in any way. But for now, there’s still the need in many to believe in
separation.

WHY DO PEOPLE BELIEVE IN SEPARATION?

Separation and the idea of independence are illusions caused by a perceived
need to be different from other beings. This need may occur for any number of
reasons. Sometimes it’s because people want to be smarter than others, or
wealthier, or more beautiful, or better in some way. Or they may want to have
an excuse to horde things for themselves, such as material goods, or beauty, or
popularity, or love. Greed, in the belief that there’s not being enough to go
around, is at the root of much separation consciousness, and it’s rampant on
this planet.

DOES THIS GREED CONTRIBUTE TO POVERTY CONSCIOUSNESS?

It certainly does. The strange thing is that greed and the individual belief that
one must horde things actually causes shortage, not just for the entire species
but even for the individual who is doing the hording. It is a universal law that
one brings to oneself what they think they’re avoiding. People get what they
think focus on, whether it’s having or not having. When people hold onto things
because they believe there’s not enough to go around, they put in place an
entire process of denying themselves in order to learn what it’s like to not have
what one needs. You deny yourself from having the very things you need.
Things like love, for instance. There’s plenty of love to go around in this
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universe. But most people are afraid to have it, because they believe they
can’t.

SO PEOPLE ACTUALLY KEEP THEMSELVES FROM EXPERIENCING THE

UNLIMTED UNIVERSE?
Yes, and they keep themselves from having even the things that your limited
reality can provide for them. They keep themselves from experiencing all
realities fully. Until one learns to experience the fullness and beauty of third
dimensional reality, one isn’t ready to travel the many dimensions of universal
reality. If you think it’s difficult having all of what your earthly reality can give
you, you’re certainly not ready for the great beauty and grandeur of unlimited
reality. Again, the mind plays an important part in all this. Remember the
great power of thoughts. Until one relaxes the mind and allows it to experience
a greater reality, it’s going to be striving to bring you what you need, or think
you need, on the physical level. In a way, you must first master your worldly
reality before you’re ready to go beyond it and have all the universe can
provide you.

DO SOME PEOPLE TRY TO ESCAPE FROM THIS WORLD TOO SOON?

Oh yes, for sure. Many people are afraid to deal with what’s in this world.
Probably most people to one degree or another. They try to figure out ways to
outsmart this world into giving them what they need, unaware that all they
need to do is stop struggling and allow the world to give them what they really
need. You can have all that you need if you’ll stop fighting and hording and
fearing, and allow yourself to have it. That’s really all you need to do here;
allow yourself to have all this world would like to give you. The fighting, all the
competing, is an expression of the fear that there won’t be enough of what you
need. On an energetic, or cosmic, level, this is ridiculous. You could never be
anywhere without there being all you need there for you. You deny yourself
having what you need because you believe you’re not worthy of having it, or
you think you don’t know how to get it. But all you need to do is let go of the
struggle and simply have it.

DO YOU MEAN THAT ALL I NEED WILL COME TO ME IF I LET IT?

Yes, but you have to let it come to you fully. You have to stop believing you
know what you need. Often you prevent yourself from having what you really
need, by believing you need something else. You confuse the world by telling it
one thing when it wants to give you something else. The healthy way to
manifest what you need is not to go around focusing on what you think you
need, but to stay out of the way and let the world manifest what it knows you
need. You cheat yourself when you depend on your own mind and its whims to
tell you what you need. Your world, and beyond the world, your expanded
awareness is far more creative in this matter than the mind and your thoughts
can ever be. You need to stop trying to control the manifestation process, and
let yourself have all you deserve.
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BUT PEOPLE OFTEN DON’T BELIEVE THEY DESERVE THESE THINGS?

Yes, that’s right. Often people are confused by what they really deserve versus
what the mind thinks they deserve. Here, we run into that problem of low self-
esteem, further confused by all the fears people have of not receiving what
they need. As long as you listen to fears and believe you don’t deserve
something, you won’t get it because you’ve set up a wall between you and that
thing. Of course, it’s helpful if you let your mind play no role in all this. But it’s
not so easy convincing the mind to let go; that your higher self and its
connection with all of reality knows best for you.

IS THIS HOW WE BLOCK HIGHER KNOWLEDGE FROM COMING TO US?

Yes, it’s the same thing. When you keep yourself from receiving what you need
to live more beneficial and satisfying lives, you keep everything away from you,
whether it’s wisdom or material things. You can be your own worst enemy in
these things.

HOW DO WE STOP BLOCKING OUR HIGHER POWERS FROM REACHING US?

Stop believing that you don’t deserve anything. Let yourself receive all that
comes to you. And stop fearing that what comes won’t be good for you. The
universe can never give you anything inappropriate. It’s your fears that bring
you unhappy experiences and shortages. If you could eliminate all your fears
immediately, you’d never have another negative experience. You’d have
everything you really need instantly. This is how reality is on other levels,
beyond the human experience.

WHY DO PEOPLE HAVE SUCH FEARS?

It’s part of the human experience; just a form of learning that happens on the
worldly plane. Once you’ve mastered fear, by personally experiencing it, you
don’t need to come back to this plane and have the experience of it again.
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Chapter 15: The Human Belief in Death

IS DEATH THE ULTIMATE FEAR?

Yes, death from the ego’s perspective is the greatest fear and the perceived
worst thing that can happen. This is because the ego fears its own demise more
than anything else. If you do anything to make the ego think it’s dying, it will
fight, literally to the death, to try to prevent you from doing this thing. This is
partly why it’s so difficult to break away from the limited perception of reality
presented to you by the mind and ego. When you try to break away from that
reality, they become frightened and try to stop you. Eventually, you have to
convince them that you’re going, and they may as well be quiet. It’s not easy.

WHAT IS THE TRUE EXPERIENCE OF DEATH?

Death as an ultimate experience doesn’t exist at all. It’s an illusion invented by
the ego to force you to toe the line. Therefore, death is a product of human
consciousness and the physical reality which that consciousness makes
manifest. Death can’t even be described as something you don’t need to fear,
because it’s really no thing at all. It’s no experience; at best merely an empty
space between worlds of consciousness.

HOW DOES ONE LEARN TO NOT FEAR DEATH?

You can rid yourself of the fear of death by living a perfect life here and not
worrying about whether you’re here or someplace else. You can stop believing
that you’re going to leave here and be caught in some limbo world if you don’t
do it all just right. You can see yourself for who you are, and stop believing
anything bad can ever happen to you. You can stay here as long as you want, in
however many bodies you choose to inhabit, and you can be what you are
wherever you are. There is no one way to fear death; people create unlimited
forms of fear, but it’s true that the fear of one’s demise, or the fear of the
unknown, is usually at the root of one’s fears. You can transcend this fear by
realizing how beautiful and unlimited you really are.

DO YOU MEAN WE CAN LIVE HERE FOREVER IF WE CHOOSE?

Yes, that’s exactly what I mean. You can be here, or anywhere, forever if you
choose. You can be here in this moment, and be somewhere else in the next
moment, then you can come back here again if you like. Some call this birthing
and dying, but that is only one, very limited perspective, of what really
happens. You really don’t have to leave here at all, and if you do leave, you
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can pop right back in if you want. You go on forever, everywhere, always.
There’s no need to be in one particular form or another to know that you’re
real.

WHY DO PEOPLE BELIEVE IN BIRTH AND DEATH?

Because they need to see themselves in a certain reality, in order to have some
sense of control of the situation. Or more accurately, they need to believe they
have some control over the situation. Birth and death are ways the ego
believes it’s controlling all that’s happening for you.

BUT ISN’T DYING BEING TOTALLY OUT-OF-CONTROL?

Just the opposite. On some level, through the perceived individual ego, most
people think that by dying they’re controlling their own destiny in some way.
As if they can decide whether they want to be here or not. But they’re not
doing this at all. Nobody decides to die on one’s own. Everybody here is part of
a great flow of energy on and off this planet. Have you noticed that many
people choose to die at the same time, either in an act of nature or a
catastrophe of some kind? This is no mistake. People come and go in great
waves, because this is how they form their reality on many levels. You’re not
so separate as you may sometimes believe.

WHAT DO YOU MEAN?

Reality is part of people’s imaginations. If great numbers of people come and
go at once, it’s usually because they believe this is how they need to leave.
Many people believe in catastrophes of one kind or another. If they believe in
such things, those things come true. Hence, thoughts are very powerful; they
determine the reality of the thinker. In fact, they determine the realities of
many thinkers at once, because you’re all part of one great “think tank” here,
at least on the mental, thinking level.

IF THOUGHTS CAUSE CATASTROPHES, WHY DON’T PEOPLE CHANGE THEIR

THINKING?
They can, if they really want to. But because they enjoy determining their own
reality, even if that reality is painful, or less than rewarding, they go on doing
it this way. People believe they’re in charge of their lives, and they think all
kinds of things that don’t need to happen, just to prove how free they are.
Again, this is a product of the ego, which is always striving to think it can
determine something meaningful for us. Thoughts cause most of the calamities
on this planet. This is why similar, seemingly related calamities often happen
around the globe. Conscious thought brings about conscious calamity, whether
you realize it or not.

DOES THE EGO DETERMINE OUR FATES HERE?

No, the ego has no real power over anything. It just thinks it does. It thinks it
can determine our fates, so it conjures up all kinds of unreal experiences for us
to pretend are real. Then, when we pretend enough, these things really
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happen. Since most people think at least some fearful thoughts most of the
time, much of what happens is frightening or harmful.

DOES HARM REALLY COME TO THOSE WHO THINK IT WILL?

Well, not on the real level of reality, the level where everything really
happens. Everyone is truly safe on that level. Nothing “bad” can ever happen
to anyone on that level. It’s a beautiful place, and it’s accessible by all. But
most people choose not to access this place, while they’re busy living chaotic
little human lives. They’re too busy thinking all kinds of bad things may happen
to them. In this sense, you are what you think. And yes, on the limited physical
realm, frightened thinking brings about frightening results. It’s a very rigid way
of viewing reality, and a very unsatisfying way to create one’s experiences.

HOW CAN I STOP BRINGING ABOUT HARM IN MY LIFE?

Stop thinking it may happen. Imagine that you can think whatever you want,
and think only things that you really would like to see happen. Stop thinking
about the past and imagining that bad things will continue happening. See
yourself growing beyond the need to experience trauma of some kind. Don’t
hold onto the past at all. The past is gone the moment it happens. You can go
on beyond it any time you really want to. But most people cling to the past as
if it’s still real. They fail to escape the traumas of the past. They may “hope”
things will be different, but basically they hold onto the fear of the past as if
it’s real, and they create it all over again. Hope, in this usage, is just another
form of fear.

IF THE PAST IS REALLY NON-EXISTENT, WHY DO WE HOLD ONTO IT?

You’re free to drop the past at any time, but people want to have a reference
point of some kind. Most are afraid to live in an uncertain reality. Again, this is
the ego being afraid of what might happen if it’s not in control. This is how the
ego actually creates a person’s death, or at least the perception of death, as in
transition from this reality to another. The ego tells the rest of the being that
it’s time to leave, for one reason or another, and so the being leaves. The
person may get sick, or have an accident, or be part of a major catastrophe.
Whatever the cause, the ego mandates it by telling the physical self that it’s
time to go.

DOESN’T THE SOUL CONTROL OUR JOURNEY IN AND OUT OF HERE?

No. The soul says to come here and have the best time one can, just as wants
for one anyplace. The soul only wants the entire self to be happy, to be fully
what one is, wherever one is, at least on the higher level. But the ego thinks it
needs to take control, and it usually messes up your life by telling you all kinds
of lies. The ego’s big thing is control. Without control, it’s lost, so it tries to
maintain control at all times.
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WHY DON’T WE JUST GET RID OF THE EGO?

Again, it’s because of fear. Fear is the great driving force of the ego. With
fear, the ego maintains control. When you drop fear, the ego is out of control;
there’s no longer the need for the ego at all. Until you learn to transcend fear
and listen only to the soul, the ego keeps its power over you.

BUT DIDN’T FREUD AND JUNG AND OTHERS TALK ABOUT THE NEED FOR A
HEALTHY EGO?
They weren’t speaking of ego in these terms. They were talking about ego as
something related to the soul, as if the soul had a human component that
needed to be expressed through worldly existence. This was a limited version
of the soul, or spirit; that it needed to come here to earth and express itself,
and get healthy so it could move on. As we speak of it here, the soul and the
ego have no real connection with each other. They are eternally separate. The
soul serves the entire being, all of reality actually, while the ego serves only
itself. It’s not necessary to have an ego at all to be here. It’s much healthier to
learn to be ego-free.

WHAT IS EGO-FREE LIVING?

By this definition, ego-free existence is living without the need to be anything
in particular, without the need to please oneself or anyone else. Ego-free
existence is the most beautiful way to live, here or anywhere. Mankind
invented the ego in order to feel safe, or in charge. Now, it’s no longer
necessary to hold onto this illusion of safety. You can go beyond the need for
ego to keep you safe.

ARE MANY OTHERS REALIZING THIS NOW?

Yes, and many will continue to come here to learn about ego, as well. There
are always those who need to learn the lessons the ego can give them. Yet,
when one is ready, you can go beyond those lessons. Many are realizing now
that the ego not only isn’t keeping them safe, but that there’s no need to be
safe at all. Let ego die and your soul will live forever in this body and in every
body you ever inhabit. This is the true nature of eternal life: Learning to live
ego-free in a perpetual state of joy.

HOW CAN WE TRANSCEND THE NEED TO FEAR?

Let go of fear as an energy in the body. Yes, fear is primarily an energetic
state. (To Gordon) You’ve worked lots with energy in your healing work. You’ve
learned what it’s like to eliminate considerable amounts of fear from your own
body. You can transcend the need to let fear control you. When you’re ready,
you can transcend the need to control anything. Without the belief in control,
fear is lost. It will go away forever, because fear depends on the being’s belief
in control. You’re free once control is given up. Only Source can be in control,
and since it has little need for control, fear has nothing in which to root itself.
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ARE YOU SAYING CONTROL AND FEAR ARE PART OF THE SAME ILLUSION?
Yes, fear and control are both illusions created by the mind and ego to make
you feel as if you’re out-of-control if you’re not feeling some kind of fear.
People label fear in lots of ways, such as hope, or intention, or planning, or
goals, or unmet needs, etc. But these things are all really aspects of fear. Fear
is basically anything which implies that you don’t trust your soul to give you all
you need. Fear depends on your need to plan or hope or wish for things. When
you listen to your soul, there’s no need to wish or want. The soul, or spirit, is
in charge and will provide you with all you need.

HOW DOES FEAR CONTROL PEOPLE’S LIVES?

It keeps them from living as they truly are. When you fear anything, you allow
the negative emotions to control your actions. Rather than acting from a place
of joy, or love, you act in the fear that if you don’t do or have something, your
life won’t work out. This is a key element to the entire living process. If you
come from a place of fearing that things won’t work out, rather than the
higher knowledge that your life will always work fine, whatever you do, you’ll
continually respond to fear instead of joy. You’ll do things for the wrong
reason, to try to prevent something bad from happening, rather than to allow
something wonderful to happen.

SO MOST PEOPLE ARE MOTIVATED BY FEAR?

Yes, in a sense, fear is the most motivating thing on this planet. Fear is also
what brings most of the grief to this planet, because fear can never bring
anything but grief and anger and an overwhelming sense of guilt.
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Chapter 16: Guilt and Other Emotions

HOW DOES FEAR CAUSE GUILT?

Since the ego believes it can cause things, ego creates the sense in you that
you’ve done something that’s brought harm to someone or something else. You
live in a perpetual state of fear that something you might do will do harm.
Remember, you can’t even take a step, or a breath, without killing thousands
of tiny organisms, in the physical sense. If you believe you’re responsible for
any of this, you’re continually caught up in the fear of creating harm. Fear and
the ensuing guilt of doing something harmful can keep you virtually paralyzed
in the belief that you may be the cause. Which is, by the way, another product
of ego’s need to believe it’s controlling or causing events in your life.

HOW CAN ONE BREAK OUT OF THIS CAUSE-AND-EFFECT THINKING?

Give up the idea that you can cause anything. In this perspective, you’re really
a very impotent being. You can’t cause anything significant on the worldly
level, ever. The world functions as it wants to, and you’re just an insignificant
player. Nothing you do means anything. You can’t kill or harm anything
because there’s no such thing as killing or harming. There’s only what is, and
none of it matters, because everything comes and goes constantly. Only the
ego can think it has any power over any of this. The ego may think it’s in
control and wants you to feel guilty so you’ll let it have its illusions.

DOES GUILT CAUSE PEOPLE TO DO UNLOVING THINGS?

Sure. People do whatever they want in the belief that they can do what they
need. But when they feel guilty, they usually try to assuage the guilt by taking
even more desperate actions. Guilt is a great motivation for those seeking
power. They act from a place of guilt and cause grief in others, believing that
this perceived power will cover up their guilt. This is another vicious circle,
guilt bringing grief which causes actions which bring more guilt, etc. And it’s
all caused by fear.

WHAT KINDS OF FEAR?

Fear of being less than who one wants to be. Fear of being something other
than what God or some other religious icon wants for you to be. Fear of not
living up to another person’s expectations, etc. It’s all fear that if you don’t do
things one way or another, something bad might happen for you. In fact, all
power grabbing on this planet is caused by the fear that one must have what
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others don’t have. Greed and guilt are the result of one’s ego thinking it’s in
charge and is keeping you safe in some distorted way.

WHY IS GUILT SUCH A GOOD MOTIVATOR?

When you feel guilty, the guilt often makes you feel as if you need to take
action of some kind to try to make the guilt go away. Action based on guilt is
always inappropriate action. Action based on feelings is always inappropriate.
When you act on guilt, you bring about a whole set of responses from others
who are also acting upon guilt. This is what causes so much of the calamity on
this earth. Guilt begets guilt which begets more guilt. Around and around it
goes. No one ever wins when guilt in the motivator. On the other hand, action
based on true knowing, the kind which comes from the higher self, is action
which results in appropriate response from your world.

HOW DOES GUILT RELATE TO THE BELIEF THAT ONE CAN CONTROL OTHERS?
Action which mandates control or power is action based on the belief that one
can maintain control over other people. By controlling others, some believe
they can control their own lives. Control of one’s own life would lead one to
higher wisdom, if it worked. But it doesn’t work, so it leads instead to further
confusion. Confusion brings about more inappropriate action, which leads one
ultimately to the realization that the only way to be in control is to give up
control. So, you see, even control issues will lead one home eventually. But it
takes much longer than it would if one gave up those issues. Guilt keeps a
person trapped in the illusion that they shouldn’t feel guilty, which is what
brings up the perceived need to take inappropriate action.

HOW CAN WE GIVE UP GUILT?

Stop believing in it. When you see that guilt only leads you to inappropriate
behavior, that it doesn’t serve you or anyone, you can find more appropriate
ways to respond to the feeling of fear in the body. For instance, you can
process the fear out of the body consciously, by sensing it as deeply as possible
as energy, and then letting it release from the body. Fear is always energy on
some level, and you can release that energy by letting it process through the
body as emotion, or as pure energy. Fear is an emotion, and like all emotions,
it’s easily processed from the body, once one accepts that emotions aren’t real
and that we don’t have to hold onto them to define ourselves in some way.

WHY DO WE HOLD ONTO EMOTIONS TO DEFINE OURSELVES?

People become attached to their emotions. They believe that they can’t be
themselves without these emotions. But emotions are not a proper way to
identify oneself. They really play no part in the true self. Everyone goes far
beyond their emotions. But people are so used to identifying with their
emotions that they have a difficult time seeing themselves without them. You
can release your emotions and be yourself, but it takes a diligent effort and
considerable commitment to higher consciousness.
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HOW CAN WE ACT BEYOND OUR EMOTIONS?

You can be free to express your true self by not paying attention to your
emotions, other than recognize and release them. You can learn how to
respond to others and to life situations by sensing the true energy in the
moment, and responding from a place of clear knowing. Again, few people do
this because they don’t have the conscious awareness of how emotions are
controlling them. They believe what they feel is who they are, and so they
react based on their feelings rather than on their wisdom. Wisdom is actually a
pretty unknown quality for most people. Emotions are the most controlling
aspect of most people’s lives. This is a very inferior way to live.

WHO ARE WE REALLY?

You are the product of universal wisdom, brought to you through your soul and
its many ways of connecting with Source. Your wisdom will carry you a long
way in third dimensional life, once you learn how to access it. Until you do so,
you’ll be pretty much controlled by emotions and beliefs. You can choose
which to follow.

CAN YOU SPEAK ABOUT THE ESSENCE OF LIFE ITSELF?

Sure. Life is a combination of energies and awareness. It’s primarily a state of
knowing which each individual entity carries forth onto its particular plane of
existence. As you know it, existence is a mainly physical thing. But beyond this
physical world, life is a much more refined set of circumstances, usually more
like energy states than dense physical reality. You can see this reality for
yourself, if you close your eyes and imagine what may exist beyond your world.

WHY IS THE IMAGINATION SO IMPORTANT HERE?

Your imagination is the most powerful way you have of connecting with higher
consciousness and all that it can show you. Unfortunately, most people’s
imaginations are also controlled by fear and beliefs, so their visions are less
than inspiring. For example, your dreams are often frightening because people
carry so much repressed fear in their psyches. These fears come out through
the dream state and one’s visions. But properly used, your imagination can
take you far into the expanded reality that includes and supercedes your ideal
world.

HOW CAN WE LEARN TO CLEAR OUR PSYCHES SO WE CAN HAVE MORE

ACCURATE VISIONS OF REALITY?
You can learn to clear anything depressing or frightening from your body and
your mind, by releasing the repressed energies in the body. By getting in touch
with the body through whichever process works best for you, you learn to
express yourself more accurately. Once you express your energy, and clear old
messages and programming from body and mind, you begin to see visions that
come to you from Source, rather than from your fears or old belief systems.
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DOES CLEARING OLD PROGRAMMING ENSURE THAT WE’LL LIVE IN THE

PRESENT MOMENT?
It may not ensure it, but it certainly will assist it. When you release old
programming from the body, you learn to access your natural state of being.
This state is usually aligned with what’s really happening around you. You begin
to see the world more as it is, rather than as you may have thought it was. You
see reality from a higher perspective, and not as a set of memories and beliefs.

HOW CAN WE LEARN TO LIVE MORE CONNECTED LIVES?

You can be more connected with your immediate world by living as if you were
one with everything in the universe. You can live as if you were not separate
from anything. The belief in separation often keeps people from being what
they really are. It keeps you from holding yourself and others in high esteem.
Believing you’re separate keeps you in a constant state of confusion, because
separation isn’t good for the psyche. Your soul knows it’s part of everything
and it wants you to know it, too. Every time you fail to see yourself as part of
the all-that-is, you dampen your true energy. When you see your eternal
connection with everything, you draw to you the energy of the universe.

CAN WE LIVE FULLY CONNECTED WITH EVERYTHING WHILE WE’RE IN THESE

HUMAN FORMS?
Ideally, this is the best way to live. As long as you know you’re connected with
everything, all the energy you need comes to you and you see your part in the
whole. When you believe you’re disconnected from ultimate reality, you hold
back vital parts of yourself and you keep yourself cut off from Source. It’s
always best to acknowledge your connection and the possibility of expanding
your consciousness infinitely.

CAN I REALIZE THIS INFINITE CONNECTION RIGHT NOW, OR DO I HAVE TO

KEEP WORKING ON IT?
You’re free to realize yourself as you are right now. There’s nothing to work
on, and nothing to do. You can see yourself as the expanded and expandable
being you’ve always been. One needs only to realize one’s capacity to enjoy
life and see beyond all physical worlds to enter into one’s unlimited and
infinitely expanding self.
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Section 5

RETURN
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Chapter 17: The Earth Illusion

HOW IS ILLUSION MANIFESTED ON THIS PLANET?

The entire earthly reality is illusion. There’s nothing real about this world.
Illusion exists where one is uncertain that it’s real. In other words, the more
you’re uncertain about the nature of reality, the more your mind tries to make
up realities. The mind hates a void and loves to fill it with any thoughts or
ideas which it can. Since most of what occurs on this planet is part of this
made-up reality, you pretty much live in a world of illusion.

DO YOU MEAN THE MIND IMAGINES THIS REALITY?

Yes, that’s pretty much it. The mind’s thoughts about this world are rarely
accurate, in terms of ultimate reality. They don’t come from Source. They
come instead from beliefs and thoughts. These beliefs then begin to show up
physically on the earth plane as what we call “manifested illusion”. They may
look real but they aren’t real; they’re only imaginary aspects of this human
reality.

CAN WE KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN MENTAL THOUGHTS AND

IMPRESSIONS FROM HIGHER CONSCIOUSNESS?
Yes, you can learn to know when your impressions come from Source. You
might call these “paranormal thoughts”, those which come from beyond the
ordinary human realm. These higher impressions bring with them either bodily
sensations, such as a “knowing” feeling, or a sense of expansiveness. We can
learn to notice if these feelings are present with a thought or impression, and
if so, know that it’s not part of earthly illusion. To do this, we must learn to be
in touch with the body.

HOW CAN WE INTEGRATE THIS HIGHER AWARENESS INTO EVERYDAY LIFE?

First, you must adapt to the possibility that your expanded life can include
many realms which you can never understood. You must learn to accept at face
value all that comes to you from beyond your mental perception, even if it
can’t be proven on the mental level. These are things that can’t be verified by
earthly reality, because they’re not part of that reality. They come from a
place beyond this reality and will never make sense based on human affairs.
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SO WE MUST REMOVE THE MIND FROM THE PROCESS?

Yes, you can never prove the validity of higher knowledge based solely on
anything human, including the aspect of mind. You may receive sensations
which aren’t fully accurate by higher terms, but if you limit yourself to only
that which the mind can prove, you’ll censor ALL higher awareness. So the first
step is to begin to consider the possibility of receiving guidance from beyond
the ordinary.

WHAT’S THE NEXT STEP?

Next, you must allow the mind to explore these impressions and see how they
can be adjusted to include your present life. You can learn to integrate new
impressions from other dimensions just as you would experience that which you
experience on the third dimension. You can use both your intuition and your
common sense together to form a new reality based on their totality. You don’t
need to rely on either one of them alone. You can live here in a new state of
awareness which includes more of your higher, or soul-based, wisdom.

CAN INDIVIDUALS POSITIVELY AFFECT THE WORLDLY ILLUSION?

No, at least not on a large scale. All the individual beings in the world conspire
to make up worldly reality. There’s very little that one being can ever do to
affect this mass delusion. You can, however, do a lot to affect your own
perception of reality, and the degree to which the thoughts of others and the
general population can negatively affect you. You can learn to access ways of
clearing old thought patterns and illusions from your own being. You can
become more clear about who you are, and you can see why you allow others
to affect you. Clearing these old beliefs is actually one of the best things you
can do for your overall mental, and even physical, health.

BUT HOW THEN ARE WE TO CHANGE THE WORLD?

It’s not your role to change the world. You’re here to live as best you can
within a world that will be whatever it will. You don’t need to focus on making
grand changes, because it’s generally enough for you to make changes to your
own tiny life. Who are you to change reality? This doesn’t mean that you can’t
do whatever you can to assist other individuals in their own growth. But you
can never be assured that you’re helping even one person. Does this concern
you?

WELL, I ALWAYS THOUGHT I COULD AFFECT CHANGE SOMEHOW.

Yes, you can affect change, but you can only do it by changing yourself, or
more accurately put, by allowing yourself to change by following your own
spiritual guidance. You really don’t change anything. You can be the best being
you can be here. You can love others and extend your own loving essence to all
who will receive it. But do you see the importance of not getting caught up in
the trap of thinking you must change anything in order to justify your own
existence. The world is a pretty big place being created every second by the
thoughts of billions of people. Changing such a place would be a pretty
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monumental task for any one being, no matter how much wonderful energy
they may channel. Be who you are and let the world decide for itself how it
will or won’t change.

HOW WILL FOLLOWING MY INTUITION AT LEAST IMPROVE MY LIFE?

Following your intuition, or spiritual guidance, will enhance your life in many
ways. First, you learn that your life is greater than you, as an individual being.
You see that there’s so much more than most people imagine reality to be. You
see how you can grow and be more of your real and expansive self. Also, you
begin to see places where you’ve followed the uncertainty of human
consciousness rather than your own higher judgment. You see that it’s
necessary to expand your consciousness in order to trust the information you’re
receiving. You also learn about yourself in ways that can effect permanent
changes in your psyche or energy field.

WHAT CAN WE LEARN ABOUT OUR ENERGY FIELDS?

For one thing, you can learn where you’re blocking energies in your body. You
can see where these energy blocks make you unhealthy, and how clearing them
can bring about a free flow of energy through the body. One definition of
perfect health would be the completely free flow of universal energy through
and around your body. This is a very important point, and one that’s little
understood in the western world. Oriental medicine has used this information
for centuries, but the medicine of the west developed on other roots. You can
use your own intuition to learn to see beyond physical sight and into the body’s
hidden wisdom.

HOW DOES FREE-FLOWING ENERGY KEEP US HEALTHY?

It brings new energy into your body at all times. You can learn to release old
trapped energies all the time if you want. You need hold onto nothing, in order
to live here. When energy flows freely through your body, you’re in the flow of
the universe. You receive all you need from the universe, and you release all
the old stagnant energy back to the universe. Stagnant energy in your body’s
system can make you sick; free flowing energy can keep you well.

DO ORIENTAL HEALING TECHNIQUES COMBINE WITH WESTERN TECHNIQUES?

Yes, very well actually. They can be combined to create very effective
techniques. Eastern techniques often treat energy flow and the holistic health
of the overall being, while western techniques often focus on individual
symptoms and specific illnesses. Ideally, we should not ignore one for the
other, but combine them to form the best healing approaches we can offer.
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Chapter 18: What’s Real About Nothing

WHAT’S THE ENERGETIC NATURE OF THE UNIVERSE?

Some words from your literature may be appropriate here, by way of
introducing this vast subject. William Shakespeare wrote "much ado about
nothing" and "life is a tale told by a madman, full of sound and fury, signifying
nothing". Harsh words – but in a way not too far from the truth.

IN WHAT WAY IS LIFE HERE NOTHING?

It’s "nothing" as it relates to all of existence. You may not think you come here
to experience nothing, but this is really about what happens. Nothing much
happens here because nothing about third dimensional physical reality matters
in the long run. The significance of life is what you do with it and where it
takes you, rather than what actually happens while you’re here. Since reality
exists only in the mind of the being holding that thought, one is free to imagine
any reality at all. This means that no one thing is real. Nothing is real and
nothing lasting can ever happen. You imagine permanence, but everything here
and everywhere is really impermanent.

IF THERE’S NOTHING PERMANENT ANYWHERE, HOW CAN ANYTHING EXIST?

Well, first, nothingness is a real thing, though it may not show up on this plane
of reference. Nothing is nothing, but it’s also real. Everything exists within the
framework which one believes it exists. If you believe the objects in your
physical world exist, then they do exist, for the time you’re here. When you’re
no longer in this world, those things no longer exist for you. How can you know
this world exists once you’re no longer in it? You can’t. You must accept that
no matter what you think exists, it may not be true. You may have made it all
up to serve you while you’re here. If each person is the center of his or her
own universe, it may all have been created by us and for us.

HOW CAN NOTHING SEEM SO REAL?

Nothing doesn’t necessarily mean there’s nothing in physical existence while
you’re here. If you made something up to serve you in some way, you may have
done so with great clarity of purpose. You may have created everything exactly
as you need it here, including with the sense that it seems so real to you.
Perhaps, it all needs to seem real for you to interact with it in a way that
teaches you what you need to learn. As if you set a stage for your own
experiences, and that set will dismantled once you’ve received the learning
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and moved on. Once you’re done having all experience; i.e., have learned all
you came here to learn, you move on and forget all that was here.

BUT IF SOMETHING DOESN’T EXIST BEYOND ME, HOW CAN IT BE REAL?

Ah, now you’re getting at a universal truth, whether you’re aware of it or not.
Lao Tzu, founder of Taoism, is credited with saying many centuries ago that
“real is what never changes”. There's really nothing real about third
dimensional human reality, because it’s all changing constantly. Beyond this
illusion, there’s a reality which may or may not be real based on your
experience of it when you’re there. But this is a reality that's far beyond the
visible, the known, for most humans. Far beyond the visible for all those with
eyes. The eyes can see only what's right in front of them. The evolved soul can
see forever.

HOW DOES ONE’S SOUL BEGIN TO SEE FOREVER?

The soul always sees forever. If you mean, how does a human begin to see
what the soul sees, the answer is that you begin to allow yourself to go beyond
the obvious. You go beyond the physically seen, to a place of higher knowing,
of higher wisdom. This is a place of pure light. When you’re fully in that place,
you can see forever, you can see all that is. This is where you can know
yourself for who you are. You become your real self, free of illusion and free of
the belief that you’re any kind of separate being.

HOW CAN I BE PART OF BOTH REALITIES AT ONCE?

You are part of many realities at once, but one only of them is “ultimate” or
“expanded” reality. All others are illusionary realities manifested to help you
work on particular aspects of yourself. Such realities serve only a part of you
for a limited time; therefore, they’re not real in the ultimate sense. You can
see aspects of ultimate reality while you’re in human incarnation, as long as
you're looking for it. If you’re content to see yourself only in human terms, that
will be your limited view of reality. Many people are content with this, not
wanting to seriously consider their unlimited potential.

WHAT’S THE ULTIMATE NATURE OF NOTHINGNESS?

The place of nothingness can be seen as light, or void, or a great emptiness
tinged with points of light. You can see light in everything, including the void,
yet the ultimate quality of this place of great emptiness is nothing. You’ve
heard that “space” is mostly a void. This is true for the all-that-is as well.
There is largely nothing there. Yet, this emptiness represents a quality of
existence which you can’t fully know as humans. Nothingness exists there in a
wonderful, exquisite form. Since nothingness never changes, this place is never
changed; it’s impervious to change, to human whim, or to anything else which
might seek to affect it. This is the place to which all beings return, when
they're ready to stop pretending that their various other realities are real. It’s
where all beings go when the light is on for them, when they're ready to see all
that is.
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IF NOTHING IS REAL, HOW CAN EVEN THIS PLACE BE REAL?

It’s not real, in your human terms. It is real in that it never changes. This is the
more accurate definition of reality. Real is what never changes. Let that be
enough for you to know, even if you don’t fully understand it with your human
mind. Just know that there’s a place where nothing changes and nothing can
ever be affected by anything. Then, you’ll see how you can access this place,
once you begin accepting that it exists. Know that you need to do nothing to
get there; that you need only to accept it and let your soul guide you there.

IS THERE NOTHING FOR ME TO DO HERE?

That’s right. You’re where you need to be to learn what you need to learn, and
as soon as you stop trying to do anything, you’ll be magically transported to a
level where you can learn this and move on to higher learning.

WHAT IS “HIGHER LEARNING”?

Higher learning is learning all you need to learn on the soul level, which far
supercedes the human experience. As long as you’re human, and focus on being
human, you can learn only what the soul can teach you as a human. Once
you’re ready to accept your higher self, you can become that self and learn
greater and greater wisdom.

CAN I BEGIN LEARNING HIGHER WISDOM WHILE IN HUMAN FORM?

Sure, you can learn about your universe and expanded reality any time you
want. All you need do is move beyond the need to learn earthly teachings and
declare yourself open to the full expression of Source through you. Then,
newer and greater things will come to you, and you’ll never need to stop
learning on this higher level.

WHEN I LOOK AT MY PHYSICAL FORM AS PART OF THE ALL-THAT-IS, I CAN

BECOME CONFUSED ABOUT WHO OR WHAT IS CREATING THE FORMS HERE.
Consider this for a moment; that you’re not the form or the maker of the form,
but that you’re both, that you’re making forms and making that which makes
all the form, in the same instant. Humans have long sought to explain their
reality by identifying an ultimate maker of form. But such an energy or being
doesn’t exist, at least not in the form of a permanent, unchanging thing of any
kind. You, as humans, are creating both the forms and the creator of forms at
the same time, moment by moment. Both the forms, that which is made into
the forms you see here, and that which is used to shape the forms are part of
the same illusion. You shape forms from raw material made up of the same
imaginary dust that’s used to make the things you see in third dimensional
reality. Neither is any more real than the other.
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BUT HOW CAN THE CREATOR OF FORM BE UNREAL, TOO?

When we speak of ultimate reality, we mean that there’s a reality in which
nothing changes. But this place is also formless. There is no one way that it
ever is. It’s unchanging and it’s formless at the same time. Do you remember
your recent dream in which men were building your new house using malleable
forms that were no more real, or solid, than the material they were using for
the walls of the house. This is a message to you about the nature of ultimate
reality. It may have looked real, and felt real, but all was constantly changing.
The “forms” being used the create the walls themselves were being shaped to
meet each need, then were once more amorphous and able to be used again
and again to create new forms. Your forms are always changing and the former
of forms itself is always changing as well. Nothing is constant, even in the place
where nothing changes.

BUT HOW CAN THINGS CHANGE AND NOT CHANGE AT THE SAME TIME?
It has to do with linear thinking, and the belief in cause-and-effect reality. If
you believe everything needs to be caused by something else, you also believe
that nothing can happen on it’s own, as in “serendipity”. But serendipity is the
true nature of things, as in everything happening on its own, with no cause. If
you continually seeking for the causes of things, you miss the point of
existence. Existence has no cause, no beginning, no end. It just exists.

HOW DOES KNOWING THIS HELP ME IN MY HUMAN LIFE?

When you allow things to exist however they do, and stop trying to change
anything, your life can become much more peaceful. You can learn how you’re
not in charge of anything here. You can see how you can never change anything
here, or be anything other than what you are. You can learn that you’re much
more than you ever believed you were while you were focused solely on human
reality. You can know that you’re the essence of serendipity, that you’re
completely causeless; with no beginning, no ending, no form, no reality. Yet,
you’re always here and always wherever you want to be. It’s a beautiful
existence, really, even though it may not exist in terms you can define or fully
appreciate at this time.

WHAT IS MY TRUE ESSENCE IS THIS FORMLESS REALITY?

You are the “experiencer”, an aspect of all reality here to experience what this
place has to offer you, in order to learn from it and move on to new
experiences. You’re here to express yourself fully as an aspect of the all-that-
is. This is all. Beyond this, you have no reality. To express yourself fully, you
must come to terms as much as possible with your ultimate self and see this
self as ever-growing, ever-changing, ever-expanding – all within the context of
this ultimate reality which you can never fully understand. Deep in our hearts,
we know all this is true. We know we’re part of such an ultimate reality. The
task is to escape the delusions of this world and access the place where higher
wisdom dwells. You can learn to do this. You’re no different from anyone who
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has walked the path of human consciousness and learned that there’s more to
be found than what meets the human eye.
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Chapter 19: Dreaming Your Life

IS HUMAN LIFE A DREAM WITHIN A DREAM?

In a sense, this is true. You’re dreaming about dreaming. When you’re
“awake”, as in not physically sleeping, you believe you’re awake, but you are
still dreaming, as in not recognizing yourself for all that you are. When you
“wake up”, as in beginning to see more of reality whether your body is asleep
or not, you’re realizing more of the nature of true reality. This is the point
where you begin to see that human life is indeed a dream. Life on this planet is
not as real as most people think. Life is a dream, just like the dreams people
have at night, except one’s eyes are open. When you really wake up to who
you are, and you’re no longer dreaming in the larger context, you awaken to
your higher self and you live with your spiritual eyes really open.

HOW CAN WE CONSCIOUSLY CREATE OUR OWN FORMS OF REALITY?

You are fully complete as long as you’re here. You’re not the separate being
most people believe themselves to be. You’re part of a greater whole, and you
can express yourself in such a way. In this context, you have the ability to
create your own reality as much as anyone does. You need only to begin seeing
yourself as fully awake and able to recognize reality when you see it. Some of
what’s happening around you will seem more real than other things.

HOW CAN WE KNOW THE DIFFERENCE?

Focus on what seems real and acknowledge that the rest is manifested illusion
which you can pass by. Don’t get caught up in the illusion. Create form which
makes sense to you and ignore all that doesn’t. This is how you begin to create
forms which seem more real and less contrived. Much of the physical world may
appear false to you in some way; this is good, because it is false to those who
are beginning to see with real eyes. Let these parts fall away from your reality;
pay them no mind and give them none of your energy. What one gives one’s
energy to usually manifests in one’s life. Give your energy to the things you
love and ignore those things which bring you grief or dissatisfaction.

SHOULD I GIVE UP MY PRESENT IDENTITY TO CREATE NEW FORMS?

No, not necessarily. There’s nothing wrong with having an identity of one kind
or another. Perhaps your present identity isn’t large enough for you. If so,
allow it to expand. But you don’t need to drop the need for an identity to
become your expanded self. Many people on the spiritual path get confused
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about this truth. It’s okay to be who you are now, and allow yourself to expand
gradually into who you are in the greater sense. It can be quite confusing to
instantly drop everything you’ve worked toward being, in order to become
what you now believe you are. The key is that you become aware that any
identity is only an illusion which serves you while you’re here and will no longer
be part of you once you’re gone from this dimension. Form and formlessness
merge when you become aware that you are both at the same time and that
you don’t have to hold onto either.

SO I AM BOTH FORM AND FORMLESSNESS?

Yes, and you can let go of both of them, as you seek to become more of who
you are. You don’t need to worry about your form or the creator of that form.
Just know that all is taking place perfectly, and that you can be yourself,
expressing yourself as you choose, in the midst this constant state of change.
Formlessness is always with you. Why would you need to hold onto it as a way
of identifying yourself? Formlessness is the true nature of your existence. You
can merge into formlessness and be who you are. You can identify with
formlessness as long as you need to, by whatever name or identity you give it,
in order to maintain your identity as a formless being. Then, when you’re
ready, you can let go even of formlessness, and become who you are.

IS SOURCE PART OF THE DREAM?

Sure. The concept of Source is merely another aspect of formlessness, of the
reality that exists beyond your present reality but is still less than everything.
Source is a way for you to maintain contact with the all-that-is, but it’s not the
all-that-is, either. It’s only part of the all-that-is. You can access the dream
reality of living on the third dimension, and then you can see beyond it, merely
by asking Source to describe it all for you. Then, when you’re ready, you can
access your own methods for seeing beyond even Source.

IS THIS PART OF CREATING MY OWN REALITY?

Yes, this is why we say you’re creating your own reality every moment. Source
is only part of the present reality. Next moment, who knows what your reality
will include? Perhaps even what you see as Source is a limited aspect of
yourself. You can go beyond this limited reality anytime you want. Source will
help you as far as it can. Then you must become who you are, free to have
whatever new experiences will take you even further. There’s no limit to
reality and your ability to discover it. There are no boxes which contain you.
There is no wall at the edge of the universe. You can go wherever you want
and explore all that you will. Nothing can ever stop you.

HOW SPECIFICALLY DO I LEARN TO DO THIS?

Let your psychic and spiritual self roam and travel to all of existence.
Eventually, you’ll recognize that there’s really nowhere to go, that you’ve
been here and there all along. You’ll learn that you can never find more than
has always been readily accessible for you. You are your universe and it is you.
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Explore this universe to the best of your ability and you’ll find your way home
to a place you’ve really never left.
WHAT THEN IS THE ULTIMATE MEANING OF OUR EARTHLY EXPERIENCE?
It’s part of your journey back to Source, to the center of all existence. It’s the
way you’ve chosen to rediscover your reality; to go beyond the universal
consciousness of this place; beyond the presently acceptable illusion which
most people live here.

IS SOURCE ALWAYS MY GUIDE?

Source will guide you as far as you need guidance; then you must jump off for
yourself into the vast unknown. Where and how you jump is always up to you.
There is no chart, no instruction manual. You must jump wherever you want,
and when you land, see where to go next. It’s your journey. Do what seems
right and learn more about yourself every step of the way. Learn to enjoy the
journey to the fullest. Ultimately, that’s why you’ve come here.