28.
The easy way out
NOTE: This
is an excerpt from the book The
Least You Should Know About Life.
Perhaps this description of your total being has made you realize that
the spiritual path is more complex than you thought and requires more
work than you had imagined? If so, do not feel overwhelmed. As will
be explained shortly, there is a systematic way to improve your life.
However, it is also possible to change your view of life, which can
have an immediate effect on your well-being.
There are many spiritual or religious teachings that promise you an
easy way out, an automatic path to salvation. In reality, the only true
way is to systematically rebuild your sense of identity until you accept
who you truly are, which restores oneness between your higher self and
your lower self. This requires work, because you must purify your four
lower bodies of all dualistic beliefs and misqualified energies. However,
there is an easy way out—sort of.
The way out is to realize that the Conscious You is what it thinks it
is. Your conscious self has the ability to identify itself as anything
it chooses and to change that sense of identity instantly. We might
say that your ego has built a mental prison out of the self-centered
beliefs and misqualified energies in your four lower bodies.
You might think of this prison as a small brick box with just a tiny
window in the door. The ego has then managed to trick the Conscious
You into entering that prison and believing it cannot escape. Thus,
your conscious self is right now looking at the world and itself from
the very limited perspective it has from inside the ego’s prison.
This is what causes you to feel stuck, to feel that life is suffering
and to feel like you have no way out.
In reality, the door to the prison is not locked. The Conscious You
can – at any time – decide to open it and step outside the
prison. Doing this does not mean that the prison disappears. You must
still undo the self-centered beliefs and the misqualified energies in
order to take back control over your four lower bodies. Yet once you
are outside the prison, your perspective on life will change dramatically.
You will
no longer feel limited or stuck and life will no longer seem like an
endless process of suffering. You will realize the truth in the old
saying that you are not a human being trying to have a spiritual experience
but a spiritual being having a human experience. And if you don’t
like the human experience you are having, you can change it by following
the spiritual path.
You can now use your Christ self as a guide to reclaiming your true
identity. You will begin to realize and accept that you are a spiritual
being and you will begin to feel the freedom and joy that comes from
knowing who you are, why you are here and how to fulfill your highest
goals. The sole goal of this book is to give you the understanding that
can help you claim this spiritual freedom.
Many Christians have been brought up to believe that only Jesus could
claim oneness with God because he was the only Son of God, and it is
blasphemy for you to think you can do what Jesus did. Yet Jesus never
claimed to be the only Son of God, and he clearly stated:
I
can of mine own self do nothing. (John 5:30)
I do nothing of myself; but as my Father hath taught me, I
speak these things. (John 8:28)
Jesus used
the word “Father” as a symbol for his I AM Presence or his
spiritual teacher. Thus, it was the Light of his I AM Presence that
gave Jesus the power to do the works that he did. It was only because
his four lower bodies were pure – so the light from his I AM Presence
could flow unrestricted – that he had creative powers beyond the
average human being. The secret that has been suppressed in most orthodox
religions is that all people have an I AM Presence. Therefore, the I
AM Presence in you has the same power as the I AM Presence in Jesus.
That is why Jesus said:
Verily,
verily, I say unto you, He that believeth on me, the works that I
do shall he do also; and greater works than these shall he do; because
I go unto my Father. (John 14:12)
You, meaning
your lower self, cannot do the works that Jesus did, yet God can do
the same works through you that he did through Jesus. What made Jesus
unique was that he stopped denying God within him, and therefore God
could work through him with no restrictions. You have been programmed
to stop the flow of God’s Light and Love through your lower being,
yet through the mind of Christ you can overcome that programming. You
will then know the Christ truth that will make you free from the ego’s
illusions.
When you know this truth, you can achieve the same state of oneness
with the I AM Presence that Jesus came to demonstrate. Jesus came to
show you the path that all people have the potential to follow. Jesus
wants all people to see him as an example to follow, not as an idol
to worship. Jesus came to demonstrate one of the basic principles behind
spiritual growth:
What
one has done, all can do.
The state
of oneness with your I AM Presence is your highest potential here on
Earth, and when you attain it, you can fulfill your rightful role as
a co-creator with God. It is only when a critical mass of people attain
this state of oneness that the second coming of Christ can come about.
This will bring God’s kingdom into manifestation on Earth, which
will usher in a Golden Age of peace and enlightenment.
You most likely volunteered to come to Earth at this particular time
for the purpose of helping to bring in the Golden Age. You have most
likely always had a sense that something isn’t right on Earth,
that something is missing and that something needs to change. You most
likely always had a longing for something better, something more, and
that lost paradise is oneness with your true self. Thus, the key to
your personal fulfillment and to improving the world, is to follow the
ancient call:
Human,
know thyself.
Which really
means:
Human,
know thy Self as God.
Your real
self is your I AM Presence. Dare to know it, dare to be here below,
all that you are Above.
29.
Understanding how you co-create
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