No Time For Karma Stepping off the Wheel of Pain and Struggle by © Paxton Robey
Chapter 2 "Cosmic Laws"
This earth functions within the framework of cosmic law. As we
prepare to graduate from earth school we begin to comprehend the
cosmic laws that govern this universe. A few short lifetimes ago
we didn't even know that any such laws existed. But now as we
become familiar with these creative principles, we can apply them
to create the reality that we desire.
Cosmic law contains no personal bias. The universe does not
know or care who is using creative principle for their benefit or
who is using it destructively. As an analogy, it allows nuclear
power to be used to generate electricity for the benefit of
mankind, or it can be used to destroy mankind. The principle of
atomic fission is impartial. It is the intent and level of
understanding of the minds that use the power of the atom that
makes the difference. But the power of the mind which possesses
understanding is much greater than the power of the atom. It can
raise the dead, walk on water, and exist in a universe where all
the pressure is off.
I speak of cosmic law as principle, not to make it seem to be
devoid of love and compassion, but because, as we will see later,
true love and compassion are based on unshakable principle
themselves.
The Universe and its rules must be seen as impersonal
principle if we are to become self empowered beings and if we are
to avoid being in a co-dependent relationship with God. If God is
principle rather than personality, then it is useless to ask God
to grant us favors. Personalities grant or withhold favors based
on personal judgments of worth. Principle can't do that. When we
pray to the archetype of creative principle for help, it cannot
grant us "gifts" or "healings". But it can
reveal itself to us, and leave the decision of how to use the
creative power which has always been available to all beings, to
us.
Remember the law of gravity. When you jump out of the window,
you will go down. On the way out you might remember about
gravity, but the earth will not care one way or the other.
Gravity is impersonal so it will not say, "She is a pretty
good person so maybe we should let her down easy."
The
Causal Plane
We want to remember that the rules here are quite simple. When
this earth was established as a school, it was determined that
reality would be controlled from the causal plane. Those who have
studied esoteric teachings know about these other planes of
existence. They also include the physical, mental, emotional and
astral planes. The causal plane sits just above the mental and
emotional planes. Because of this alignment, when you combine
thought with emotion, you get outpicturing (manifestation) in the
physical dimension. This is exactly the same process that Dale
Carnegie and other sales motivation trainers have been teaching
for years. Any individual who has tried it knows that it works.
When you hold a vision in mind of what you desire and put some
emotional energy behind it, it will manifest in your reality.
If we examine this creation process from a spiritual point of
view, we have the essence of the ancient mystery school
teachings. You now know as much as any seeker or occult
organization has ever known. Thoughts held in mind outpicture!
That is the way that this system works. Although we have all
heard the rules before, we tend to forget to apply them
consciously.
Resist
Not Evil
We may believe the master teachers did not understand how
complex our lives are, but based on the evidence from their
lives, it is possible that their methods are the only methods
that will fix every problem our earth has. It is important to
notice what the masters didn't say, as well as what they did say.
They didn't tell us to get a college degree if we want
enlightenment. They didn't say to line up an army so we can
overpower whatever threatens us. They didn't say to round up
followers to support our cause. They said "pray ye one for
another". We insist that is too simplistic. "You just
don't understand my husband. Prayer won't do it I've got to
have a sledgehammer!" What did Jesus say? He told us to turn
the other cheek. "Yes but if I turn the other cheek now the
whole planet will be wiped out." "There comes a time
when you have to take a stand like a man, right? John Wayne all
the way!" But, in truth, that is not the way. Jesus said to
resist not evil. Many of us, because we are good people who have
learned to be compassionate, have spent our lives resisting
wrongs.
Let me ask you to make an assumption for a moment. If it is
true that reality is created by thoughts held in mind and
emotions held in the body, what is created by being anti-war?
I have several friends who are anti-nuke. One of them is so
good at his anti-nuke campaign that he has collected posters of
children with radiation burns and their skin falling off. The
pictures are so graphic that no one could look at them without
fulfilling every requirement for manifestation. What he helps to
create is another child with radiation sickness. If someone is
anti-murder because they believe that to be the most horrible of
crimes, they are holding a mental image in mind backed by their
emotional outrage. You can see what that creates one more
murder on the planet because that is the law of the creation.
Simply stated, whatever we are anti, we create. Just as the law
of gravity is unbiased, so is the law of creation.
How to
Create the Garden of Eden
The universe does not distinguish between the desires
and the fears that we hold in mind. We must understand
that to be way showers on the earth. If we wish a garden of Eden,
or if we wish all men to be free, how do we attain the power to
create these things?
The tenth graders have put their faith in the intellect and
they attempt to create through the process of debate. They create
a lot of excitement and a few good wars. Eleventh graders are
anti everything harmful. In one sense that group of individuals
is the most powerful creator of harm on the planet. The twelfth
grade is the first time that it really sinks in that thoughts
held in mind outpicture. At this level people begin to see
everything from the Christ perspective and there is, therefore, a
shift in their compassion and their understanding. Here is where
folks begin to see that they are not victims, that they can
create or recreate or heal anything.
If we wish the earth to be green, should we be anti-brown
earth? Not one bit. The average mind cannot comprehend the
difference here. But those who are beginning to put the spiritual
two and two together can see the cause-effect relationship. It is
easy to see the difference between those who are effective in
creating the garden of Eden and those who dedicate themselves to
their causes without making much progress for mankind. It will be
amazingly powerful as the environmentalists shift from being
anti-pollution to being in favor of clean everything. The mind is
a more powerful creator of physical reality than any creative
cause that resides in the physical plane.
The power that we have to create on the earth is phenomenal. There have been some incredible advancements in the understanding
of the laws of this plane, including bumper stickers that now say
"Visualize Peace." When we can shift from being anti
the negative to being pro the positive, we become a true savior
of the planet. Nit picking you say? It is the crux of
understanding cause and effect. Stopping war creates hell. Visualizing peace creates heaven.
Consciousness
Creates Reality
Always go directly to what you want to create. You are one
five-billionth of the creative force on the planet and whatever
the five billion hold in mind is the outpicturing on the planet. Why are dictatorships falling? Why are people putting glass
bottles in one sack and aluminum cans in another? Why did the
Berlin Wall come down? Are these events occurring because the
intellectuals debated everyone into it? Definitely not. Meditation has done more to heal this earth than all of the
intellectuals and those who function from blind compassion put
together.
Meditation is dwelling on the causal plane. Isn't it
interesting that all of the gurus have taught their students to
relax the body. "Let's do some deep breathing here and a
little yoga to get the physical plane out of the way." They
did not say "Let's get excited and go do it!" They said
"Relax - peace - be still. Let thine eye be single fixed on
God." Now hold in mind what you desire your earth to be. Visualize what you do want, not what you are against. Cosmic law
is unbiased and it does not care what you visualize. It will
never say "Well that was a bad thought so I don't think I'll
manifest it."
When we can get several million people to participate in a
world healing meditation on December thirty-first, that is when
the Berlin Wall crumbles. No one has found another reason as to
why it came down. Peter Jennings has never told us on the six
o'clock news why it happened and it was certainly not our
government that brought it down, nor was it any army or economic
sanction. It came down purely because of a shift in
consciousness.
Did the millions of meditators know what they were doing? Did
they comprehend the power of the mind to create? Hardly at all. They had no idea of the synergistic effects of their combined
thoughts. But it felt good. They gathered and they prayed. They
have ensured that peace will reign on this earth and that harmony
is here to stay. For the rest of the year they may go about
trying to fix things that are wrong, but it will not matter,
because for one day, they all pulled in the same direction and it
shifted the energy of the earth. It has inched its way towards
peace.
How many individuals does it take to create transition on the
earth? How much of your day do you have to spend visualizing to
create world peace and clean air? The master teachers said that
if we have faith as a grain of mustard seed one percent of
the time will do it. The random thoughts of the world's
population do little harm to us or our planet. If we have five
billion individuals engaged in random thought one half
thinking this and the other half thinking that half saying do
it my way and everyone will be saved the other half saying
no, do it my way which way are they pulling? We have everyone
going in different directions and nothing moves. But if you add
to the five billion people all pulling in different directions a
handful of entities who are willing to work in harmony and hold a
directed thought in mind to pull in the same direction, before
they know it the whole crowd has been drawn across the river. That is cosmic law.
We always must seek for the cause of all change within the
realm of consciousness. We would prefer for the cause of change
to be something tangible and dramatic that could be put on
national television so we could tell everyone what to do to save
the planet. It will not work that way because our belief
systems create our reality.
Behavior
Is Not Creative
One of the things that we are going to come to understand is
that behavior is irrelevant. Our greatest programming from the
moment that we are born on this planet revolves around behavior. Our guilt exists because authority figures told us our behavior
had harmed other people. We had our hands slapped when we did
something wrong. When we were old enough to understand language,
the first word we learned was "no." "Don't do
this, don't do that don't, don't, don't!" and yet no
master teacher has ever said that our behavior made a bit of
difference. They comprehended that doing is not the creative
force on this planet.
Even after we know about using consciousness to create our
realities, we occasionally get desperate because we cannot see
how our thoughts are outpicturing, how they are bringing about
the changes we desire. So out of frustration we fall back into
doing. That way of creating has always failed to create permanent
happiness and it will always fail.
We have been trained that the five senses give us the only
true picture of reality so it is easy for us to see a building
under construction and believe that "creation" is under
way. If that were true, Jesus would have had to
"construct" the water as solid before he walked on it. Consciousness is the reality on this plane. Doing is the natural
result that follows.
There has never been a building built that was not first a
thought in some architect's mind. Jesus never built a bridge and
Sai Baba never stopped a war, but they are creating transition on
the planet. We always want to come back to creating in the way
the great spiritual teachers have taught.
Now don't hear me say that doing is bad or irrelevant. Doing
is required on this planet. Doing is our nature. Doing is a part
of our exploring, our playfulness, our dance of life. But doing
is not cause. We need the wisdom to be able to distinguish cause
from effect. We need to know how to create our universe through
consciousness so we can dance through our doing.
"Trust"
- The Most Feared Word In The Metaphysical Movement
Those of us who have studied the process of affirmations and
denials that Unity, Science of Mind, Christian Science and some
motivational groups offer, understand that because our belief
system creates reality the only thing that ever needs altering is
that belief system. If we see an error in the world, it is our
beliefs that need fixing and not the error. I love to read Emmet
Fox because he speaks very clearly about that process. He even
stated in one of his works that our belief system is so powerful
that if we believe a ten dollar bill is truly ours, we could put
it down at Forty-second Street and Broadway in New York City and
return in two weeks to find it there.
I decided that I would learn this lesson for myself. One thing
that had always troubled me was the energy required to protect
property and the concept of locks and keys. I decided to try
Emmet Fox's theory. I declared that I would stop locking my car
because it was mine and therefore no one else could take it. Well, in a very short time my car was stolen. The universe was
going to help me learn this lesson. Since I had already made the
decision to live consciously, I did not become angry or upset
when I discovered that my car was missing. Instead I sat down
quietly and tried to figure out what had gone wrong by asking
myself what I had been thinking and creating. I soon realized
that I had become a bit egotistical in my declaration of not
needing to lock my property. I must have told six different
people that my property was protected by God, all of whom I now
had to face. I needed to borrow the telephone of one of them to
call the police. Within a few hours of figuring out where I had
gone wrong, the police telephoned to say that my car had been
found and it was returned to me.
A few evenings later, I came home from work close to midnight. Just as I was pulling into my driveway I had a flat tire. I was
so tired that I decided to wait until morning to change the tire
but as I got up the next day I discovered that the car was again
missing. When I had returned home the evening before, the gas
gauge was on empty. So the car thieves had run out of gas a few
blocks from my home where the police found the car. But in order
for them to steal it, they had to change the tire for me! The car
was stolen three times in all before I had uncovered the errors
in my belief system, but each time it was returned to me in as
good or better condition than before it was taken.
Spiritual
Honesty
As we increase our awareness we develop a sort of spiritual
honesty. We become willing to acknowledge that we have been
creating some blocks in our awareness that have prevented us from
attaining all that we desire.
There is a significant difference between spiritual honesty,
which says I have inadvertently created some things I don't want,
and the world's form of honesty. The authority figures believe in
mistakes. Their version of honesty is, "get real, you blew
it." They try to impose guilt as punishment for mistakes. The true spiritual seeker is willing to see the big picture. He
is willing to believe that he has never made a mistake, that all
past beliefs and experiences are the foundation on which he
builds cosmic consciousness.
We have to go through a learning process to discover how to
create joy for ourselves, instead of having some guru hand it to
us. Spiritual honesty is simply acknowledging that it is a
process. It is growth. Growth entails removing what no longer
works and replacing it with what does work. No guilt, we're just
cleaning house.
Ann Landers credited her readers (the Rubinows) with this gem,
"Good judgment comes from experience. Experience comes from
bad judgment." Obviously nothing in life is an error. It is
all there to teach us wisdom.
Prayer
Prayer is an essential part of any path to awakening. To
return to our natural state of godness we must function as if we
are already back in our natural state. Telepathic communication
and an unbreakable connection with the infinite are
characteristics of the natural state of being. Therefore every
master teacher has taught their students to take advantage of
these characteristics. If one talks telepathically to spirit, he
has acknowledged he does believe in oneness.
"Ask and you shall receive", Jesus said. It's true,
but it isn't possible for the universe to hand out favors because
we create our realities and all they contain. Prayer is
always answered but it is answered in a way that won't violate
our present belief system, even if that is a belief in personal
limitation or lack. It is answered in a way that will show us how
to change our belief in limitation or lack.
When we say "Oh God, I'm broke! Please send money!",
bills and more debt are likely to show up. The universe is
saying, "We are not responsible for you not having any
money. We cannot give you anything because we have never withheld
anything from you. But because you have asked and because
thoughts held in mind outpicture, we are going to show you
exactly which thoughts you have been holding that have created
your poverty."
Releasing
Thoughts That Create What We Don't Want
Each person is an infinitely powerful creator. That person is
the only one who has created his apparent lack, so here is a
stack of unexpected bills. Why did they show up when we asked the
universe for prosperity and abundance? It is our mental and
emotional reaction to having the bills come that created the
poverty in the first place. The universe is simply saying,
"Look at this! These bills are not an accident they are
the answer to your prayers!" When we go to the mailbox and
find bills, we need to watch our reaction very carefully. We used
to blame other people or the economy for our plight, but now we
want to take one hundred percent responsibility for our lives. We
understand that we create our own reality. Instead of affirming
"Oh God, there is never enough money", it would be very
wise to affirm "Thank you God for my prosperity. I am in the
flow and everything is love." When we recognize bills as
opportunities to release negative energy and we give thanks for
the understanding they bring, then we will have broken an old
pattern. A Course in Miracles says "everything is for
your own best interests".
For most people it takes some time to break these old
patterns. It may take months of bills to get to the place where
we can walk to the mailbox and honestly say "Oh thank you!
This is great!" We will probably even have to begin by
faking it, but in a very brief period of time it will become
real. Emerson said "To become, act as if." As we refuse
to hold negative energy about the lack of money, changes will
start showing up. Slowly we become aware of the cause-effect
relationship between thoughts and manifestation. Then one day
quite "by chance", prosperity will come flowing into
our life. We get a raise or win the sweepstakes or Aunt Matilda
dies and leaves us a small fortune. Our reaction may be
"Well God didn't answer my prayers that was Aunt Matilda. You know this stuff doesn't really work anyway." We should
notice who we believe our benefactor is. Sometimes we forget that
it is God.
Beliefs
Create Good/Bad Relationships
If we have an emotional attachment to something, we will draw
it into our life. It is true for our bills and it is true for our
relationships. When we say "I have never had a relationship
that worked God please bring me a good one", do you know
who is going to show up? The stereotype of the error that we
always select will show up. Now we can look at this person and
decide to choose again. Here comes unfaithful number fifty-one
who is exactly like untrustworthy number fifty and number
forty-nine and number forty-eight. The universe is asking us to
look at who we are selecting every time. We can change our
priorities and say, "I'm sorry, but I don't care to choose
you again. I chose to have a relationship with someone like you
last Thursday, last month, last year and last lifetime and I will
not choose someone like you again. I deserve someone who can hear
me, someone who works with me and someone who fits in my
life."
Therapy, or honest self observation, may reveal to us,
perhaps, that we have a pattern of selecting partners who are
just like our mother or our father. The value in knowing
something like that is not in seeing that we are victims of our
upbringing, rather it is in seeing that we have a choice to
choose differently. When we pray for help, the universe is going
to show us where we have been making errors in our choices. Then
when we begin to make conscious choices, the right person will
miraculously appear.
Nothing that we have ever asked for has manifested in our
life. What does show up is something that gives us the
opportunity for understanding how we personally have been
creating the thing that we did not want. We can change our
priorities in order to create what we desire. Every instant in
every life is truly a divine moment because it gives us the
opportunity to erase a pattern that has produced things which we
have not enjoyed. Begin to look for the relationship between
cause and effect in everything.
Keeping a written chart will point out what we have prayed for
and what happened. We should watch vigilantly for twenty-four
hours after we send a request to the universe. We can no longer
afford to look at life as random or accidental. Immediately
following every conversation that we have with God a series of
signs will appear in our life. Most of these signs will resemble
ordinary events, so it is easy to dismiss them as unimportant. However, it is our ordinary habit thought patterns which have
been creating our day to day reality. Therefore it is these very
patterns that the universe must make us aware of if we are to
create the answer to our own prayer. We must choose to see that
every coincidence in life is a message directly from the
universe.
Talk
To God As An Equal
If we feel timid or undeserving when we communicate with the
universe that will cause the universe's response to be one which
could be accepted by an undeserving person. A little
assertiveness is appropriate when talking to God. Remember that
God is not an ego which can be offended. God is principle. God is
unwavering cosmic law. When you decide to pray for something,
tell God how long she has to answer your prayer. Tell her that
you want to know within three days time why you do not have this
or that in your life. Then watch very carefully for those three
days.
If your friend is in a coma in the hospital and you are
feeling very uncomfortable with the uncertainty of his
predicament, ask for a sign. "Is my uncle going to get well
or is he going to move on? You have twenty-four hours to let me
know." If you then miss the sign, do not blame the universe. Cosmic law states that if you ask, the sign will be there. Demand
feedback from the universe and do not walk around in the dark for
one more instant. It is every child of the universe's birthright
to have a talking relationship with God all day every day. Be
willing to say that you want synchronicity and coincidence and
strange things happening in your life. Declare unto the universe,
"I don't want to go through a single day without something
totally weird happening to me that tells me there are no
accidents."
In my own prayers I add that I want to learn without pain or
struggle. Some people think that is cheating, but I don't. Learning without struggle works because we make the rules for our
life.
Observing
Our Creative Process
What have our thoughts been for the last twenty-four hours? Is
it any wonder that our life is the way that it is? We must make a
choice to focus our attention away from our problems, dilemmas,
dramas, what so and so did to us and how bad it all is, and
refocus on what we desire to experience instead. Thoughts held in
mind outpicture. It cannot get any easier than that.
We hesitate to believe that we can create our life exactly as
we would like it to be because we fear that we might create the
wrong thing. That is logical. We have created discomfort and
struggle thousands of times and we are gun-shy. In the past,
however, when we tried to fix our lives we didn't possess a
knowledge of how "earth school" worked or of the cosmic
laws which govern creation. We were usually trying to change
people or situations "out there". Now we know that kind
of approach is destined to create discomfort sooner or later. As
we learn that the only way to change the "out there" is
by becoming cognizant of what has been going on in our minds and
hearts, we begin to experiment with the power of creation. We
know that absolutely no situation is unchangeable. Nothing in
this universe is carved in stone. "Change your mind and you
change the world" is cosmic law. This system is
perfect. It is governed by love, and we are allowed an infinite
number of revisions to our lives. The source of miracles is a
changed mind. Bernie Siegel points out that there is no disease,
whether it be AIDS or the most vicious form of cancer, from which
people haven't recovered.
Techniques
For Creation
How do we discover what we want our lives to contain? It is
not necessarily an easy thing to do. Most of us have been fairly
sure that we knew what we wanted only to find out that we were
merely repeating a pattern that didn't work the last time either. How many people have had to have a certain person in their
life only to almost immediately begin the long and arduous
process of getting rid of them?
I recommend that everyone engage in the "yellow pad
exercise." Get a legal size yellow pad and a bold black pen. Make sure it is a bold pen. We don't want any timidness to
creep into our creation. Write down everything that you love,
enjoy, like, desire, admire or otherwise have warm and positive
feelings about. Leave nothing off of your list. If you haven't
filled at least twenty five pages you haven't been really trying.
It is not easy to create a truthful list which has integrity. We have all been programmed by society that we shouldn't want too
much. There is a tendency to weed out the less "valid"
items somewhere between the thought and the paper. Remember - no
weeding allowed!
Another difficulty in creating an honest list is the tendency
to include the things that "ought" to be there. Ought
to's and should's are your mother's or father's contribution to
your mind's data bank, not yours. Remember - no ought to's!
Evaluate every item as it goes on your pad. Is this my
desire? If I could have anything I want, would this be on
my list? Is this something that all persons of my gender were
taught that they should want or is it really my own desire?
What kinds of things are appropriate for this kind of list? You make the rules. Your decide. Things pertaining to your
personal environment, where you want to live, what you like to
do, how you like to spend your time, how you like to be treated,
etc., etc., etc., etc. Do you remember the popular song a few
years ago that was sung by Tom T. Hall, I Love?
Here is just a tiny portion of my own list. I love windows to
look out of, grass between my toes, beer in a frosty mug, and
butterflies. I love to talk to people about far out things, Field
of Dreams, driving in the desert by myself, and angle food
cake. I love to listen to talks about the "new
physics", living the simple life, girls, and Mexican food. I
love the freedom that money represents, meditation, silence, and
my wife. I love to fly airplanes, flowers, the respect of others,
unlimited vision, and life. I love harmony, laughter, elegant
dinners, and watching my planet heal. I love looking in the eyes
of another human being when they "get it". I love hugs,
doing life slowly, rivers, and mountains. I love peace of mind,
the feel of velvet, making love, computers, and you.
Your list has two functions. The first is to help you make
choices in your life. Look your list over carefully and you will
learn a great deal about your self. Does your present job contain
many or few of the things on your list? Does your present
relationship reinforce and encompass the items and personal
characteristics on your list? What kind of job or relationship
could you imagine yourself getting into that would contain a
majority of the items on your list?
The second function of your yellow pad is to help you invoke
cosmic law on your own behalf. That which you hold in mind
outpictures. Put your list on the bathroom mirror or the
refrigerator door (or Xerox it and put it in several places). The
more often you remind yourself of what you love, the faster that
will become the only experience in your life!
Sometimes when people discover that the positive use of
thought really works, they think that they have to create everything
good in their lives. "Well gosh, I have to create a good
liver today", so they sit down and send light to the liver. It will work of course, but tomorrow there will be the stomach
and after that it will be pancreas day. It is mentally exhausting
to keep the body in shape one organ at a time. And then there is
the area of prosperity. "Oh dear, I have to make enough
money for the house and the car and the food and I can't forget
to do my treasure mapping and visualize the money flowing
in..." It would be utterly exhausting!
Why not realize that the universe is on your side! The Father
knows what things you have need of before you even ask. It is His
good pleasure to give you the kingdom. It is not up to you
to earn it or create it alone. Just do it the way that Jesus
suggested. "Let thine eye be single fixed on God" and
the universe will do the rest. In this statement, the word
"God" means Good, your "I love" list.
At some point you may desire to go through the process of
creating a specific thing, situation or healing to prove to
yourself that consciousness does create reality. For most people
this is an essential step. At some point or another you may want
to manifest the new car by visualizing it and feeling it as
yours. Then when it comes about you will have absolute proof that
the law of creation works. But do you want to do that with every
teaspoon and Hershey bar and piece of furniture that you desire? That would be so much stuff to create and it would get very
boring. Its more fun just to get on a roll, get in the flow of
life.
Removing
Personal Blocks
Self improvement is big business these days. Large numbers of
people in our world are aware that they have some control over
their self image and their standard of living. This is great. A
few hundred years ago, before the Aquarian energy was having an
effect, these subjects were almost non-existent. The evolvement
of group consciousness seems to have speeded up as we move into
the Aquarian Age.
Those persons who are the "pattern makers" for the
advances in awareness that the human race is making, must stay
ahead of the planetary group. The group is trying to grasp the
idea that they could have some - any - control over their lives. They have been trained that control of their lives belongs to the
economy, politicians, jobs, family members and their environment. In helping the group to become aware that their blocks are
internal, the popular psychology teaches them to locate blocks
and to work through the blocks. This is very effective for tenth
and eleventh graders, the most evolved of the group. Twelfth
graders and drop-ins, on the other hand, want nothing to do with
working their way through blocks. Working our way through blocks
bears great resemblance to paying karmic debts, an effective but
painfully slow way to approach enlightenment. Working our way
through our blocks was not a technique advocated by any master
teacher.
A Course in Miracles says that all analysis is of the
ego. That means it is an attempt at correction made by the part
of us which believes itself to be separate from God. Separate
thinking can't find oneness.
Once we have acknowledged that a block exists, we can apply
all of the wonderful Eastern teachings of detachment and
surrender. This tells the universe that we accept their help in
clearing it.
Let's not try to "fix" ourselves. That is the old
way and it will create considerable pain and take a lot of time. Our only responsibility is to identify our problems as
specifically as possible. "I fear this bill collector. I'm
not sure why or where it came from but I fear it." Then turn
to the universe for help. Pray for an answer and be observant. Watch for the universe's reply. Feeling responsible for finding
our own answers creates delay and discomfort. The universe is
friendly. We are not alone or separate from spirit. It is not our
job to solve our problems. A Course in Miracles says that
all correction belongs to Holy Spirit. This doesn't just mean
that the responsibility for fixing Uncle Harry's drinking problem
belongs to Holy Spirit. It means that the correction of our
blocks and phobias is Holy Spirit's job. Our job is to be
vigilant, to watch for signs, to listen for God's voice.
Now I know that those of you who have counseling backgrounds
are saying to yourself that this is naive and simplistic. And in
a sense it is. After an individual has acknowledged a fear or a
block, it is not necessarily all peaches and cream from there on
out. The block still has to be "processed". However,
there is an easy way and a hard way for the processing to take
place.
When we believe that we can work our way through a block by
relying on our intellects and our earthly training, we are surely
on an ego trip. The most effective counselors work very
intuitively, not just by the book. We have no idea where a block
comes from or what creates fear (except in an absolute sense we
know that all fear comes from a belief that we are separate from
God). We can look in this life for authority figures who were
"wrong" or for abuse that was "unjust" but
the representatives of the wrong or unjust are merely symbols of
past life dramas, all of which are inaccessible to us in our
normal state of awareness (not to mention that the dramas were
illusions.)
Obviously we don't tell someone who is hurting that it is all
an illusion. But our approach as a psychologically oriented
generation has been to allow ourselves to be persuaded that we
possessed "real knowledge." And therefore we were
authorized or even credentialed to heal (repair) each other. The
truth in an absolute sense is that nothing is broken so nothing
is in need of repair. It is in need of acceptance. We are in need
of accepting each other and ourselves as children of God, as the
Christ.
As an example, there are many books, and even a couple of
stories on TV which deal with persons having mysterious pain or
illness. When these persons were hypnotically regressed to a past
life situation where the source of the pain was discovered, the
problem went away. The hypnotist did not judge the patient nor
did he offer suggestions as to how to deal with the problem
medically or otherwise. He just listened. A healing occurred. When we find a way to get fear out in the open, no matter how
many lifetimes it has been within us, it vanishes. Fear is not a
tangible reality in God's universe. Fear is a false belief. We
don't deny that it seems real to the person involved, but
remember that our own fear seemed real when we thought Arnold
Swartzenegger was going to die in the movie.
The truth is that we don't know anything. There is no
objective reality. These statements are hard to swallow for those
who have acquired their self worth from recognizing their
intellects. But the intellect supplies us with smarts, not
wisdom.
Wisdom is awakened in us when we recognize the truth in the
teaching of the masters. To enter the kingdom we must become as
little children. Resist not evil. "In my Father's kingdom
are many mansions that you know not of." Let us continually
ask to be shown the truth instead of justifying our positions or
defending our "knowledge."
When an individual honestly acknowledges a block or a fear and
then turns it over to the universe, the same process takes over
as took over when that person prayed for prosperity. The universe
does possess the knowledge of where the block came from.
The universe does know the most expedient way to dispel
the error in the belief system which created the block in the
first place. If we will keep our intellects and rationalizations
out of the way, the universe will use the many tools at its
disposal to enlighten us, to return us to a state of inner peace. Merely "by accident" someone, even a stranger, may say
something that triggers great understanding in us. By some weird
"coincidence" we may happen to acquire a copy of a book
which causes a great light to dawn on us. "Accident"
and "coincidence" are powerful tools that the universe
uses. They are much more expedient than human methods.
"Accident" and "coincidence" are just other
names for Holy Spirit.
What
Should I Create?
The time delay between forming a thought and the manifestation
of what the thought represents is dramatically reduced right now,
as we approach the Aquarian energy. It is still long enough,
however, that we have to look carefully for the connection
between cause and effect. Some people walk around half of the day
thinking yellow, yellow, yellow and the other half of the day
thinking blue, blue, I want blue. When life brings them green
they say, "I didn't ask for this! I didn't ask for green in
my life!" But if they go back to do a quick review they will
remember that they did ask for yellow and blue. We need to
understand how things fit together on this plane of reality.
Maybe we would be quite wise to give power of attorney to that
energy that can see the future and our own contract with the
earth. It is a smart thing to ask that energy to create for us. But it cannot step into our lives unless we ask because "Ask
and you shall receive" is a statement of cosmic law. It is
written down in the Bible almost as a parenthetical statement. In
actuality, it is the way that the universe functions. We are each
omnipotent and therefore we cannot receive a single thing for
which we do not ask.
Sometimes we find ourselves in a bind because we do not know
what to ask for. How could we know what to ask for since we are
unaware of what condition the world is going to be in tomorrow. We cannot do any better than to walk into walls when we are blind
to that which we will need tomorrow. At one point in our
development mankind is taught to turn it over to spirit by saying
"Thy will be done." The purpose of that statement is to
get us out of ego.
Functioning from the ego is never what we want when we are
trying to release blocks. Ego is that aspect of our awareness
that believes itself to be separate from God. It will always lead
us astray. It is not a matter of being right or wrong or good or
bad, but simply that the ego functions from incomplete
information. The ego can only take in information through the
five senses and it tries to make a decision based upon the
knowledge at hand. It draws upon what is published in the
newspapers and books and our past experiences, which is always
less than one tenth of one percent of the information that
exists. It is a really silly way to try to make a decision believing that we are separate and therefore have to gather
information and act upon it. So a teaching tool to get people to
move up one level from making decisions based upon sensory input
was to say "Thy will be done." That acknowledged that
there is a universal energy or intelligence that has access to a
larger databank than our egos.
Every master teacher that has come to the earth has told us to
give power of attorney to something with a greater vision than
our own until we have reached the state where we have that
vision also and can take conscious control of our lives. We are
not acting alone. We are part of a team that works with all of
the unseen kingdoms and realms that exist in this universe. That
team is sometimes called Holy Spirit, or the whole of spirit.
How many times have we demonstrated that we did not have to
know the answer to our questions? We merely had to say
"Spirit I want this. I am ready for that change." When
it appeared in our life we knew that we were working with cosmic
law instead of ego manipulation. We will often not know what we
desire in a specific sense, but we do know that we want peace,
happiness, prosperity and excitement. Ask for these things in a
general sense and leave the details up to God!
Communicating
With "Spirit"
Communicating by means of "channeling" or the
psychic senses is possible and even normal. If a loved one has
died and you desire to speak with them, by all means sit down,
relax, and use your inner senses to have a meaningful
communication. A personal, one on one, confirmation of life after
death is a very valuable experience. But let me say a word of
caution here. There is a difference between communicating with
Holy Spirit and "talking to the spirits." Sometimes
when folks discover techniques that allow them to communicate
with the unseen realms in verbal or written forms, they like to
believe that they are in contact with "God", the big
"G". Please remember that not everyone who is dead is
wise. If they were a klutz in body, it is guaranteed that they
are a klutz after they die. We do not change our level of
understanding or spirituality or wisdom by crossing over to the
other side.
Unseen people who hang around this planet are exactly who they
were when they were incarnate with the exception that they
function from fourth dimensional reality and can therefore see
some of the past and future. Hopefully if we seek verbal
communication with spirit, and verbal communication is certainly
not required, we will tune into someone who functions from a
fifth, sixth or seventh dimensional reality where the ego is less
concrete and the natural state of being is to perceive the past,
present and future in the same instant. These folks on the higher
dimensions are not "divine" time simply is not
linear there, it goes with the territory.
Often times we are tricked because words can come into our
heads or through our pens or ouija boards and tell us about
tomorrow and we think "Oh, this must be God!" It is not
God, it is someone who doesn't live in a body any more. When you
"die" you will be able to do it too. The wise person
will sense and communicate telepathically with any unseen energy
to see if it is someone that they would like to listen to or not. If someone in human form is trying to give us advice, we can size
them up very quickly. We can talk to somebody for five minutes
and know whether we want to say "Get out of here!" or
"What? Tell me more!" It is exactly the same process
when we are communicating with entities on the other side of the
veil. If they seem rather wise and they talk the way that we
think, then we may want to pay attention and get a few hints.
Giving power of attorney does not mean relinquishing our free
will to voices or words. Holy Spirit speaks through feelings,
signs, and coincidence. Holy Spirit always feels peaceful, like
the pressure was just taken off. Any communication that we
receive which has any complexity to it whatsoever is of an ego. Perhaps a very good ego, but an ego still. Any message we get
from spirit which contains a list of things to be done, is a
message from an ego, maybe from an old playmate, but it is not a
message from "God." God has no lists. God is being, not
doing. Any message we get from spirit which says to hurry or
"time is running out" is of an ego. God functions
outside the realm of time and space. God reorganizes time and
space at his will. It is never too late for a good miracle. Hurry
is not peaceful. God's voice is always calm.
After we develop trust in our helpers on the other side we
hear ourselves saying things like "I have no idea how that
happened, but the right person, the right car, the right job and
the right event showed up at precisely the right time." We
are entitled to walk around in pure bliss without the foggiest
notion of why life is working. Our job is to stay out of the way
and leave the details up to that energy that has a higher vision.
Every time we take control of the details we will create one hell
of a mess.
There are an infinite number of solutions to every dilemma. We
can continue to call upon the best solution without regard to how
it is going to manifest, where it is going to come from or even
if it is possible. It always amazes me how people think that they
have to ask for help in a certain way. Some believe that they
must be in a particular place with candles and a cross or other
paraphernalia. They forget that the universe is one hundred
percent nonverbal communication and can only read our intent. It
cannot hear our words or see our actions it simply reads our
mind.
If you are now ready to ask for help in guiding your life from
the unseen realms, I will share with you the most powerful prayer
in the universe. I have checked with Matthew, Mark, Luke and John
and have their permission to not only share this prayer, but to
state that its power exceeds that of the Lord's Prayer. This is
the most effective prayer that has ever been heard in the
universe and it is the one which cannot be denied by any energy
in the cosmos. It is the one that rallies all of the kingdoms to
your aid invariably, without exception. Are you ready for this
prayer? "HELP!!!"
When you understand the simple rules that control this plane
of reality, you will become infinitely powerful. Then you can
create reality according to your own terms. We must all learn to
do that because we have made a contract with the earth as a
group. Our contract states that there will be ten million
self-realized entities on this earth within the next fifty years
so that the combined telepathic energy of those ten million would
so penetrate this plane of existence and every mind in it, that
everyone who chooses to stay for the Aquarian Age will graduate
before the next age rolls around. We do not want any stragglers!
If you choose to become self-empowered and see the Christ
within yourself in this lifetime, you will have ensured that
hundreds of millions of individuals who stay on the earth to do
their schooling can graduate as well. That means that we have a
lot of work to do. Fortunately we possess the power of all of the
universes to create what we will as we will. Also, we have
tremendous help at our disposal in the unseen worlds. Always
picture the garden of Eden blooming and coming forth, never again
to resist evil. Remember, we create that which we are against.
Love, love, love and everything will be just fine.
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