No Time For Karma Stepping off the Wheel of Pain and Struggle by © Paxton Robey
Chapter 5
FOLLOW
YOUR BLISS
Who
are the "Light Workers"
What separates the modern day "light worker" from
the billions of souls who are incarnate on the earth today? The
members of the planetary transition team have a certain
understanding of cosmic principles which is above and beyond the
norm of group consciousness. When we move our view point from the
tediousness of day to day life to a more universal perspective,
we uncover some aspects of ourselves which help us clarify our
function and our self worth.
Because we don't normally peek into the minds and hearts of
the dozens or hundreds of people that we chance to meet each day,
we have no idea of what the average level of awareness is in
society. We tend to judge people's level of spiritual evolvement
by their behavior. More specifically, we judge them on whether
their behavior makes us comfortable or uncomfortable. At the same
time we are sure that no one's opinion of us which is based on
how our behavior makes them feel could come close to doing
justice to what we are sure is our own elevated level of
awareness. Who a person is, in terms of their usefulness to the
awakening earth, cannot be determined by using worldly eyes.
For many years I worked with hundreds of folks who were both
"spiritually aware" and struggling. As an intuitive
counselor I would look into their minds and hearts. I would
review their incarnational contract with the earth. I invariably
discovered a being inside of each person that was far and away
more noble, more empowered and more Christ like than they gave
themselves credit for being. I discovered that a lofty purpose
resided inside of each and every person. Yet when I spoke
verbally with these people I heard a myriad of reasons why they
could not outpicture the internal vision. The reasons were always
worldly reasons, worldly limitations, ideas of limitation
received from their background of interaction with authority
figures.
The more I probed the inner levels of people and the workings
of our earth school, the more apparent it became to me what was
required to be a light worker on this planet. Light workers
remember that they function within the cosmic laws that govern
our reality:
- First, all minds are connected and all true communication
is telepathic.
- Second, every individual creates the whole of reality by
what they choose to hold as their beliefs.
- And thirdly, God is love and God is all powerful so
everything must be okay just the way it is. If we don't
perceive it as okay then it is our perception that needs
elevating.
This understanding leads us to be able to specifically define
our function and our value to the human race.
Having peeked into the minds of hundreds of individuals such
as yourself (if you're typical of the kind of person who would be
reading this book), I can absolutely guarantee that you have a
higher level of compassion and a far greater understanding of the
nature of God than the average person on this earth. You have a
desire to be harmless. You have a love of things beautiful and
peaceful. Therefore, since your mind is telepathically connected
to every being in every kingdom on this planet, each moment that
you hold lofty thoughts, or healing thoughts, or happy thoughts,
you are raising the consciousness on earth. You are
healing this planet.
You are not being an escapist when you don't feel like dealing
with the drama of the day and choose instead to go out in nature
where you can be surrounded by peace and beauty. You are
following the directions of the master teachers who understood
and taught the stilling of the mind and the calming of the soul. They knew that no one's behavior or words could fix a budget
deficit or a family feud. They knew that a single person's mind
focused on peace could create an opening in the earthly veil,
through which the unseen workers would pour accident, chance and
random events to change any situation for the better.
This is the time in which we must choose to walk in peace in
every moment, be prosperous in every moment and heal in every
moment because that is the only consciousness that we wish to
share with the earth.
Light workers do not come to the earth en masse, except when
the Aquarian Age is dawning. The function of these light workers
is to alter group consciousness by working in harmony with cosmic
law, the only truly effective way to create change. So the light
worker's job is revealed as a simple one of choosing to be happy
and following their bliss.
Few of us can truly comprehend what life would be like without
drama and dilemma. "What do you mean be at peace all of the
time? What are you talking about being happy all of the time? Are
you telling me that I have a right, that I deserve and can
possibly justify spending every moment of every day in total
bliss?" You not only have permission, you have an obligation
to do whatever you want to do now. If you want to heal the
planet, you must do exactly what pleases you and nothing else. You must be exactly who you are and nothing else. Only by
following your bliss can you unleash the creativity that you came
to earth to share. We must all be the creators and the examples
of pure bliss. It is the only way for the planet to become
blissful.
Consider
the Lilies of the Field . .
If we are to trust the master teachers, we could spend every
day listening to music and talking with the flowers and as a
result we would prosper, be healed and experience perfect harmony
with every other human being. There really is not any more to it
than that, but the ego maintains a belief that the only thing
that stands between us and total annihilation is our ability to
manipulate, control and otherwise engage in defensive activity. The ego can't allow itself to believe that God is in charge. It
has a totally separative belief regarding who is responsible for
the survival of the self and the earth. People who try to be
"practical" by maintaining either a defensive or
aggressive posture in the work place, and also try to be
"spiritual" are trying to serve two masters. It
produces a great deal of frustration.
In New Mexico, where we live, there are many natural hot
mineral springs. Folks come from all over the world to use these
waters for healing or simply for relaxation. I was immersed in
these most marvelous waters when another fellow joined me. As I
came out of my meditation I ask where he was from and he
responded "New York". Then he ask if I came there
often. I replied that I did, that I lived only a few miles up the
road. He commented on how lucky I was to be able to come as often
as I wanted. I explained that it wasn't luck, that I had made a
decision a few years ago that life was too short not to be doing
what I really wanted to do and be living where I really wanted to
Live. His whole body convulsed, his hands covered his ears and he
said "I don't want to hear that".
When masters-in-training stop giving excuses to the universe
as to why they cannot be true to their hearts and follow their
bliss, they soon become realized masters. But when one is
submerged in the telepathic pool of energy that surrounds this
planet, he cannot become a master without paying attention. We
have a lot of programming and old beliefs that we must first
choose to let go of.
It would be nice if we could just choose to change our life's
activity and begin to lead the spiritual life. But our beliefs
and our guilt don't go away just because we move into an ashram. Learning to follow our bliss doesn't begin with changing jobs. We
create our realities from the inside out. Our bliss is as much
not doing argument any more as it is creating great works of art
or healing the sick. Making our relationships work and bringing
the flow into our life is the hard part of following our bliss. It is neat to read the intriguing, dramatic tales of how the
planet is going to be saved by divine entities outside of
ourselves, but the truth is that there is nothing out there.
That is the answer that we don't want to hear because it
transfers all responsibility back to us. It is our responsibility
to be happy in this moment, to think big and to believe that we
are valuable to this earth. Your mother and your father and the
authority figures in your life probably did not tell you that. I
bet that there was not a single one of them who said, "I
think you are going to be the Christ when you grow up."
Rather, they will immediately come to mind as saying, "What
do you mean, be a savior to the earth? You aren't so hot. Why
don't you just go sit in the corner." It doesn't matter how
old you are or how long your parents have been dead, you will
still hear their criticisms when you embark on your path to
freedom. Your only reply can be "Sorry Mom. I am divine. I
don't have time to go sit in the corner because I have agreed to
heal this earth and all of her inhabitants." As long as
humans are encased in physical bodies they will have the voices
of those authority figures in their heads. It goes with being
immersed in group consciousness. It isn't easy but we don't have
to be a victim of old voices.
Parents
Don't Authorize Blissful Offspring
Our parents, peers, and the authority figures in our lives
were simply doing the best they knew how. They were students of
planet earth. They were not ascended masters. We can decide in
this moment that we are going to follow the teachings of the
masters only and that we will pay no attention to any authority
figure on the whole planet, alive today or ever having lived,
that did not demonstrate peace and happiness in their own lives. The people that our society makes gods out of are the ones who
get cover stories in Time, Newsweek and Sports
Illustrated. We choose to emulate people whose lives are
wrecks. Most of the role models that we have picked are
individuals who keep the hospitals filled and whose relationships
don't work. They are stressed over money and their loved ones. They have ulcers and die of cancer, heart attacks or some other
stress related phenomenon. We rarely stop to look at the fact
that we have chosen the wrong authority figures. We have rarely
considered that we are free to choose new role models.
Parents are a tough issue for everyone. In counseling work we
discover that all parents were a problem to the child. The family
was either dysfunctional or one or both parents were too rigid. The child was raised in a disadvantaged environment or life was
too easy. Dad wasn't there or he smothered the kid. What does
this prove? Only that earth is a school, not utopia. We chose our
parents, our classes, and our lessons before we paid the entry
fee. Since our lessons were our choice, when we quit buying into
them is our choice also.
If we try to live the life that our parents chose for us then
we will end up exactly like them. Their ideas about the world and
the way it functions have nothing to do with objectivity,
absoluteness or God. The fact that they controlled us with guilt
manipulation is not to be held against them. If it is our intent
to become unlimited, expansive and expressive, then we must
accept the fact that our authority figures were doing it the only
way that existed for their generation. It was the way that they
were trained. That was the way things were done in the Piscean
Age. It does not mean that we do not love our parents or that we
disrespect them. It is just that we are a part of the
transitional generation that demands more loving rules so we can
become self empowered.
We must stop and look closely at the programming we receive
from former generations. We were literally programmed to do what
they told us above and beyond what God (either in the form of
inner guidance or as the voice of master teachers) says. From the
perspective of our parents' generation, we were selfish if we did
not please them and if we did not become what they said we should
become. Some of us were expected to spend our whole life trying
to make them look good and feel good, or we were considered
selfish. Now we know the ego calls people selfish as an attempt
to control them. However, from a spiritual perspective,
selfishness means nurturing, blessing and taking care of the
self.
We must understand that we and our parents are one because all
minds are connected. There is only one god consciousness that
permeates everybody and everything. Therefore when we follow our
bliss and become creative, self empowered, and happy, our parents
and the rest of the world benefit.
Every individual who has ever achieved true greatness and
really contributed something to the planet drove their parents
nuts because they refused to be programmed and manipulated. They
were like Jesus when his mother said, "How dare you run off
and sit with the rabbis! Didn't you know that dinner was
ready?" He could only reply "Mom, chill out! I have
things to do." That might be another paraphrase, but the
truth is that if someone like Van Gogh had spent his life doing
what his Mother had said, then we would never have seen his art. Every human being who has contributed something creatively to the
planet has declared "Sorry Mom, Dad, but I just don't follow
the rules. I live life on my own terms and in my own way and I
love you so much that I am going to be an example for you as to
how you too can get free."
John Randolph Price calls those who are not motivated by fear Superbeings.
They are the ones who do not buy insurance, they don't wear seat
belts and they don't stop at red lights at four o'clock in the
morning when they are the only car in town. Furthermore, when
they drive through the light they don't look over their shoulder
to see if they are going to get caught. They break patterns all
of the time and they never allow any other human being to hold
power over them. We are simply delaying our own well being when
we give our power away. We cannot be free until we take our power
back and declare that we are not victims.
Our parents and our authority figures on the other hand
believe themselves to be victims. They attempt to teach us what
they believe to be the true conditions of life. Their happiness
is subject to the economy, the marketplace, their jobs and their
families. We really do not wish to be like them.
Light
Workers Choose Joy In Spite of It All
Most folks on this planet have laid out a class schedule for
themselves which allows a great deal of time to learn each
lesson. This chapter would not be even slightly comprehensible to
them. Many people, for instance, take a whole age, two thousand
years, to become a little more tolerant of others. Learning to
not be victimized takes most folks at least one full cycle of the
ages, twenty six thousand years.
Present day masters-in-training didn't include that kind of
leisurely pace in their contracts with the earth. For us it boils
down to making a choice. I will stop exploring all of the
possible ways that I might have been victimized. By my own
volition I will abdicate the rewards I get from friends and
acquaintances for being a victim, and will instead "let my
eye be single, fixed on God."
There is no room in our reality for being a victim of
anything. Can you imagine God being a victim? Can you imagine
Jesus saying, "Mom, I'd love to turn your water into wine
but ... You see I'm a carpenter, you know, and I'm building this
house. I owe this guy so much money because I bought my tools on
time payment so I've got to get out there and build this home
instead of messing with your water. I just don't have time to do
it, Mom."
Jesus was immersed in the same telepathic pool that you and I
are, so thoughts often came into his head urging him to give up
the grandiose quest and just be a limited human like everyone
else. But his support group wouldn't let him get away with it. It
is a whole lot easier to be a carpenter than it is to be a
messiah. We did not come to planet earth to meet our mother's
expectations or our father's or our spouse's. We came to fulfill
our potential.
Imagine for a moment that your life on earth has been over for
a thousand years and you are recounting the story of your last
incarnation with a dear friend over a drink. "Who were you
when you were there?" your friend asks. "Well, since
all entities are God", you reply, "we are all the same
essence. In the beginning there was only God, so we were all
equal aspects of God even though we were in body."
"Wow, with that kind of understanding you must have
transformed the earth! You must have done miracles and shifted
the planet off of its axis!" To which you responded,
"No, my husband wouldn't have liked that."
There are many ways that we attempt to do our work with less
than total commitment. We compromise our time and we compromise
truth because we fear reprisal from our authority figures or from
the economy. Each and every one of us are exceptional beings. There is absolutely no difference between you or me and a Sanat
Kumara. None. Zero. Zip -- except that he chose to follow his
bliss and we chose to have excuses as to why we could not. To
play the game according to our own rules and create our own
reality requires that we sift very carefully through everything
that the authority figures raised us to believe.
Most of us have been waiting a long time for someone to tell
us that we are all right. If they do, don't believe them. If we
feel good because somebody told us that we were okay, then we
have given them the power to pull the rug out from under us. If
they take their statement back we will be devastated. We will
never follow our bliss because someone gives us permission to do
so. Would that god, god, very god most high could descend into
our living room and pass out a diploma and shake our hand and say
"Well done!" It will not happen, you know, because that
is separative thinking. God is not out there and God cannot come to
us because God is in us. God is the essence of our being
and we are the godstuff that is doing the transformation on the
earth.
Our commitment to self empowerment is what the earth has
needed for many eons. It is a great gift to planetary
consciousness. Be willing to tell the universe that you are okay
just the way you are. No one can do that for you.
The
Fear of the Separate Ego
Why were there soldiers in the Middle East with guns perched
on their shoulders looking down the barrel of death? Because some
opinionated, intelligent, educated being told them they must do
it. How many soldiers would the world have if people followed
their own bliss? How many bombs would fall if everyone followed
their hearts desire? What if we were all making mud pies?
"We can't all follow our bliss" some will say. "That would be anarchy! Wouldn't we all starve?" Do
those words sound like they came from a master teacher or a
fearful person?
People who believe themselves to be separate from you and me
and God fear that separation. In their fear they request of
society that a set of rules be established to control the use of
"power." Power, to them, means power over other people. They believe that uncontrolled people are at best anarchistic if
not outright dangerous. Even when their desired controls are in
place, life is still a game of jostling for position, trying to
be top dog. The more advanced of the separate egos don't advocate
war to settle the issue of who gets the power, they advocate
elections. With elections, hopefully only 49% of the people will
be subject to the will of the majority. Elections are only a
slightly more civilized form of war. Either way one group makes
decisions "on behalf" of the other.
How do entities who do not believe themselves to be separate
from others act? Beings who are not separate do not need to
protect themselves from others. They do not need to be told about
the advantages of cooperation as opposed to conflict. Beings who
are aware of their oneness with all creation are not merely
harmless, they are the essence of harmlessness, they are
love/compassion/wisdom.
A being who understands his oneness would not vote anymore
than he would pull the trigger. He has no desire to impress his
political will on another person and he knows that there is no
need for centralized protection because no one's will or state of
well being can be compromised. One isn't self empowered
until one realizes his connection with all souls. What helps me
helps everyone. What harms others harms me. When there is
understanding, no one would attempt harm so protection isn't
required. Self empowerment is a total state of being. There are no victims.
Those who believe in the separate ego believe that the natural
state of being for humans is unproductive, lazy, and parasitic. They believe that if people weren't forced to work by economic
need they would only take, never giving. They believe that the
nature of man is evil (evil is live spelled backwards). In a
sense they are right. If mankind did awaken enough to become
healthy, prosperous, and happy, they would quit their
jobs. They would quit doing everything that was not fun. But the nature of man is derived from the nature of God, his
source. The nature of God/man is to create. The nature of God/man
is to explore. The nature of God/man is omnipotent and
omniscient. Awakened man has always refused to make work out of
life. He creates. He loves. He dances. And he is fully aware of
cosmic law - - no child of God can be forced to endure lack
because of what another child of God does not choose to do. Prosperity is created by consciousness, not the work force. Have
we forgotten about the natural state of being in this universe?
It
Takes More Energy to Create Limitation Than Any Other Condition
We have been programmed to believe that if we are not being
maimed or murdered at the moment, then our life is pretty good. We have been told that life consists of working hard and doing
the best that we can. We were told that if we have food on the
table and clothing and shelter along with a few friends, then we
have no right to expect more. Yet that is not what any master
teacher spoke of. They were discussing strange states of being
like nirvana! We were not programmed by society for perfection,
but the truth is that we are a little piece of light that flew
from the star that is God. We will exist in the universe's
natural state of being eternally. It has taken great effort -
many ulcers and heart attacks and a little cancer - to keep bliss
repressed.
Why aren't the inhabitants of school house earth experiencing
the natural state of being? Because one of the attributes of God
is infinite power and, believe it or not, each person possesses
the power to create limitation. It is not easy to be god, god,
very god most high, gather all of your resources and all of your
energies, and create the illusion that you are merely human - a
powerless, limited, subservient being. It is almost too fantastic
to believe. Most of the entities that exist outside of this earth
school cannot begin to comprehend the stories they hear about
life on this planet. They cannot figure out how a society can
continue to exist while outpicturing characteristics that are in
opposition to the natural states of being in the rest of the
universe. If you were to ask an inhabitant of Zeta Reticuli about
getting permission to be who they are, they would not even
comprehend the question.
The only block to our awareness and our enlightenment is the
decision not to become self empowered and our determination not
to be who we are. Until we change that decision we will continue
to believe that this earth and it's government and it's economy
and our family hold power over us - and it shall be so, for we
are God and our words are truth.
We came to this earth to do our self empowerment in the here
and the now. That is why Jesus Christ is not born on this
Christmas day - they needed him two thousand years ago, but they
need us today. This is the beginning of the age of true
enlightenment where there is nothing left to do but follow our
bliss, our heart's desire.
Self
Empowerment is Normal
Self empowerment is normal. All of the quadrillion other
entities that exist in the several universes take it for granted
that there is no other way to be. But down here in the lower left
hand corner of this sort of archaic universe is a little school
that we call earth whose inhabitants feel the need to ask
permission.
Do you know why we still seek permission? It is because we
believe in right and wrong and the possibility of making errors. But didn't the master teachers say that "ye are Gods?"
Buddha said it and so did Mohammed and Lao Tzu and Confucius and
Abraham. What kind of an error could God make?
Each of us have experienced moments of pure bliss in our lives
but we surrounded those times with fear because we expected our
happiness to go away. When we were having a marvelous time
playing with our toys and everything was wonderful and it was
past our bedtime, we got busted in the midst of our personal
ecstasy. The voice said "Go to bed - you are having too much
fun!" In every instant that life started to get really good,
we started to look over our shoulder. We developed a connection
between that which we desire and that which we fear. Every
experience that we have ever had on this earth that brought us
into a space of timeless time was followed by, "Quit having
so much fun! Who do you think you are? Where do you get off
thinking that you deserve to be so happy?" That is the
reason that we all have the fear that if it is too enjoyable it
will surely end. This belief alone will keep us from living in
ecstasy eternally. Remember that we are not victims of those who
busted us. We chose them as teachers so we could learn to take
our power back from them. Then we would be free.
How many individuals on this earth are willing to live every
moment in pure bliss and ask no one for permission to be who they
are? Einstein did it - there is one. Rembrandt did it - there is
two. There are a few - a dozen, a hundred, maybe even a thousand. If we take away from the five billion or so who live on this
earth the handful of beings who are self empowered and have given
themselves permission to live in the natural state of being, how
many would you say are left? Five billion or so. A few thousand
is not even a drop in the bucket.
As the Aquarian Age began to dawn, we watched some exciting
things happen. We began to see the creative consciousness express
itself in new forms of art, new philosophies and new sciences. It
started with just a few scattered light workers who were radicals
and heretics in their day. From an astrological perspective, we
can say that the Aquarian Age energy began to leak into the
planet with the Renaissance. There was not a single aspect of the
human condition that escaped transition. Expanded modes of
expression appeared in the arts, science, philosophy, and
religion. A few modern prophets appeared to tell us about a
better way. That is why Leonardo da Vinci, Ralph Waldo
Emerson, Thomas Edison, Kant and Quimby showed up on this planet. They understood the prime directive and that life on this earth
is an evolutionary and transitional process. None of these
individuals had any use for dogma or stagnation. What set them
apart from the rest of society was their desire to live
consciously, and the willingness to trust their inner being above
and beyond anything that they had been taught.
The trick is to go through every moment of every day
remembering the big picture. Becoming wise and aware, we learn to
be conscious all of the time instead of living life through old
patterns and habits. Part of living consciously is knowing what
we do comprehend and what we have not yet grasped. It's knowing
when we are centered and balanced and when we need reinforcement. We must be willing to say, "I don't really have a grip on
this, so I'd better listen to that tape or read this book or
watch that sunset." Living consciously is the only way to
ensure that we are moving in the most expedient manner toward
where we want to go.
This is a marvelous planet for people who accept
responsibility for their lives and refuse to be victims. Planet
earth will be a literal garden of Eden for those who are ready to
define for themselves what their bliss is and follow it. What
separates the masters-in-training from the masses? The masses are
saying, "I can't quit my job because I owe too much
money" while the m-i-t's are declaring, "If it doesn't
feel good, I'm not going to do it." If you continue to do
anything that doesn't feel good, know that it is your choice. If
you choose to remain in incompatible situations, that is also
your choice.
What excuses do we use for remaining a victim? We are totally
free to do anything we wish. We may choose to be a victim but we
should at least do it consciously. Say "Today I choose to be
a victim. Isn't that wonderful! I'm going back to that job I
hate." Or "I'm going to be a victim this afternoon. I
don't want to go to so and so's house. I don't enjoy them, but I
don't want to hurt their feelings so I'd rather be a
victim."
If we will truly live consciously, we will not have to alter
our behavior in any way that would be too frightening or
uncomfortable. Let's just be aware of what we are creating for
ourselves and the patterns that we are setting for the planet
when we allow ourselves to be victimized. The instant we choose
to be conscious in every moment and aware of the choices that we
are making, our lives begin to change. Within a few days time we
will have discovered a number of ways to shift out of victim
roles and into stress free roles.
We are only uncomfortable when we try to fool ourselves by
saying that we do not have any choice. When we put up with things
that are less than blissful for us, next year we will still be
facing the same choices until the day comes that we say "I
quit!" Then we will recall what that guru said about
detachment and surrender. It is the only way to freedom.
We must decide whether we are following peer pressure and the
traditional ways of doing things or if we are following our
guidance. When we weigh it out, we will quite often opt to follow
society's ways for a little while longer because it may be more
comfortable than just leaping off the cliff into a new way of
life. That is okay. It is a slight delay in time, but it is okay
as long as we do it consciously. Simply say "Yes, I have
opted to follow an old pattern because in my present state of
awareness I believe that it will give me a higher comfort
level." Eventually we look back and say, "Oh God, why
did I wait so long?", and we move on.
Every day that we live consciously we discover more things
that do not feel good. That is wonderful! Our pain is our key to
freedom. We find out perfectly through our pain what we are no
longer willing to put up with. We cannot let go of something if
we do not recognize that it exists. As soon as we recognize it
and drop all of our excuses for keeping it, we will have moved
one step closer to becoming totally free. When we look at the
Piscean Age of regimentation and the days of the blind leading
the blind, we can see clearly that the earth desperately needs
individuals who can go directly to God through their own inner
guidance.
We can use the power of our will to choose peace in every
moment instead of reacting to things around us. That means that
if the car has a flat tire, we have the choice to say "I
deserve nothing but the best, so this must be the best flat tire
in the whole world." That will reclaim all of our power and
erase our sense of victimization. The function of every flat tire
has always been to make entities aware that a tire does not hold
the power to make them unhappy. As we learn to not hold energy
about a tire, the ego protests, giving us a list of the
consequences. "First of all, you are going to be late and so
and so will be very upset with you." We are free to declare
that we no longer buy into those lists. How could anything in
God's universe be late anyway? How could anything be out of
order? It simply means that we are going to arrive at our
destination at a different time and therefore some magic is going
to occur. Great! Whatever we hold in mind we create, so
anticipate that everything that occurs in life is creating magic.
While we are looking at fear as an excuse to hold on to old
patterns, let me say that no entity has ever experienced fear in
the present moment and no entity has ever experienced guilt in
the present moment. All fear is directed towards the future,
while guilt is a reflection from the past. Therefore when we
focus on the now, we will never experience those emotions. Fear
and guilt are the only two states of being that have prevented
mankind from seeing its true nature.
Psychic
Memory and Vision
I have an acquaintance who was declared mentally retarded as a
child and put in special schools for the mentally impaired simply
because he did not shut off his connection with other levels of
reality soon enough. He had many invisible playmates as a small
child and, as he grew older, he kept right on playing with them. They would occasionally even bring him small gifts. It was a
particularly strange experience for his family. His doctors said,
"Well, Alex is not all here so he must be retarded."
Today he has earned three PhD's and he still does his psychic
work. He does out of body exploration for the police department
and finds missing children. He is the one who is normal while the
rest of us try to please our parents.
Every one of us has memories of our existence before we were
born. Sometimes these memories leak from the subconscious into
our conscious minds. What happens if we came from star system
thirty seven Z in the fourth left hand domain of universe
Magicalseven? What if we try to live life the way we remember it
from our previous experience? Nobody wears a mask over their
feelings where we used to live. Every being is totally telepathic
and open and honest. If we function like that on this planet, we
get severely battered about the head and shoulders by our peer
groups, family and teachers because we are so different.
On earth, we must learn to conform. So for our own survival we
begin to shut down. We say, "Wait a minute - I'm not going
to tell anyone what I know or what I see. I am going to back out
very gently here because I don't want to spend the day being
punished and sitting in my room. I'm going to act like a normal
human being." How many of us have done that for our own
survival? Then twenty or thirty or forty years later somebody
comes along and says, "Tell me what you know." We will
have been conditioned to say "Oh no - you aren't going to
beat me up. I don't remember any of that cosmic stuff."
I can recall my own experience as a child. I was visiting my
cousin's house and playing tag with the tree deva. I was having a
ball with this little invisible gnome. He was much faster than I
was. Then my cousin walked out of the house and caught me. I was
so humiliated and embarrassed for playing with something that was
invisible. I vowed right then and there that no one would ever
catch me doing that again. I did not see another tree deva until
I moved to Santa Fe a few years ago. One day I was having a great
deal of trouble getting answers, so I headed off for my favorite
meditation spot. I pulled my car up to a spot where I could look
out over a peaceful valley. Just as I was reclining the seat to
relax, I saw hundreds of these little people. There was one
coming from every tree. They were shouting, "He needs
cheering up! Let's get him!" In a few minutes I was crying
out, "Quit! Quit!" I couldn't stand their tickling any
more, but I was delighted that they had returned to play with me
after forty years. We all have the option to recall those moments
in time with our special friends from other dimensions.
Can you remember those moments in your life when you were
really doing your own thing? You entered that state of timeless
time playing with the dolls or painting or making mud pies. It
was as if the rest of the world disappeared. Those moments were a
preview of what you are to attain in this life. You have the
option to live in that state forever because you create your own
reality any way that you choose to do it. You may create
adventure, exploration or gut busting laughter. You may have
anything that you desire in your version of bliss.
Drama
is Familiar (Safe)
Bliss Is the Unknown (Fearful)
One of the things that is important to remember is that
perfection will not be boring. We sometimes fall into the trap of
inviting drama because of the false belief that nirvana would not
be exciting. When we live consciously we will become aware of
what a draw drama is. If we see a dramatic situation at work, do
we walk off as if it did not exist or do we move directly towards
it so we can get all of the details? How can we stay in touch
with the light when we are involved in the drama?
The Course in Miracles tells us to simply
choose peace. If someone is about to punch you in the nose, are
you going to choose peace? If the bank is about to repossess your
home, will you make a drama out of it or say, "Oh well --
it's just a house." It sounds amusing, but in truth it is a
choice. Most of us would get very tense and uptight if they came
to take the house. We forget that we control our own bodies and
their responses. We are choosing our emotional state in every
instant of our life. Because there are no victims, we do have the
option of choosing peace.
Most of us are not really sure that we want to give up all
drama just yet. "Does that mean that I have to give up the
rest of the basketball season?" It doesn't mean that we have
to give up anything. But we will have to change our perspective
if it is our desire to become free. There will no longer be any
winners or losers on the court - there will just be individuals
exceeding their previous limits. Basketball is a wonderful
teaching tool. From the athlete's perspective, if she can jump
higher or move faster than she has ever done before then she has
made progress toward being unlimited. From our perspective, we
want to see God playing with God and nothing more. The sole
purpose of the athletes on the court is personal growth. Until we
can see it that way we will remain trapped in our own web.
When a person begins to follow his bliss and believe that he
no longer has to conform to the authority figures in his life,
there is a period of time in which it appears that he has screwed
up royally. Our family and friends are the first to tell us so. They will tell us that we are impractical and that we cannot quit
our job or leave our spouse just like that. It is a transitional
period that will scare the hell out of us but after a brief
period of adjustment an amazing thing happens. When we stop
playing the game according to old rules, we discover that we are
not going to be destroyed. Here we get a taste of the truth: it
is possible to end struggle for all time.
"Trust",
There's That Word Again
Awakening souls decide at some point to trust the universe
totally. Trying to attain cosmic consciousness in tiny steps is
too frustrating. Hopefully all of us will decide that this is the
lifetime to jump into the abyss. That step has to be taken
sometime. Fortunately the universe is very benevolent and very
much on our side. If we will allow our transitions to be fun,
then they will be. The universe is so loving that it will succeed
in breaking us of our limitations one way or another. But cosmic
law states that we always have an opportunity to choose the easy
way. That is what is happening when we get the urge to quit our
job or make other changes in our life. We know when a different
use of our time would be more fulfilling.
Thoughts held in mind outpicture. When we become objective
observers of our repetitive thoughts we see what experiences lie
ahead. If we have been complaining about the job and saying,
"I don't want to go to work", the universe will set it
up so that we don't have to go to work. So why not resign before
we end up in surgery, get fired or the office burns down? A smart
thing to do would be change the "I don't want to go to
work" thought into a "something much better is coming
my way" thought. The universe doesn't judge the quality of
our thoughts. It merely manifests them.
A typical response that people have to the universe's nudge is
"Oh, but I can't just quit! I'll go broke! I won't have
anything to eat! I won't have anything to do. I just can't do
that because if I don't work at this job that I hate for the next
twenty years, they'll take my house away!" If the house
seems threatened, resist not. Just say "Good-bye, house. It
was a good home, but I am on the path to freedom."
Resistance creates deeply painful experiences. It is all just a
lesson and if your house or your property is in danger, be
willing to say, "God, it's yours. I don't need it and I
don't care what happens to it." If you really mean it, by
tomorrow everything will be fine. If you choose to worry about
it, by tomorrow things will be worse.
"Thou shalt have no other Gods before me" was a
warning that cosmic law will produce for us in the physical plane
those things that we give our attention to, for they are our
gods. If we believe that our peace of mind and our happiness
comes from our house, it has become our God. A house makes a
lousy God that can only bring misery. If we are aware that we
create for ourselves, why would we want to hold on to our misery?
It is simply because we do not believe that the universe is
friendly, and we haven't yet learned to trust that something
better is going to take its place. Society will always say that
if you do not do that which you hate, including all of the
paperwork that goes with it, you will go bankrupt. Did any of you
see Willie Nelson standing in front of his house while the
Internal Revenue Service padlocked the door? He said, "Now I
remember what felt so good about being so free years ago."
There is an aspect to the teaching of detachment that is quite
important to keep in mind - that which you release voluntarily
will not be experienced as pain. It is only clinging to what we
"need" which causes the pain. When we jump into the
abyss we release everything. If there is no fear of loss
there is no pain. We trust God will take care of us and lead us
where we want to go.
It helps to know in advance that we may experience a few
stumbling blocks along the way. Sometimes we think we have
released something when we have only done part of it. Your car
might get stolen a few times like mine did or whatever is your
equivalent of that. We so fear the pain that blocks may bring,
that we want assurances and guarantees up front. We want to say,
"Okay spirit, if you bring the money I'll jump" but
invariably the answer will come back "Wrong! You make the
commitment first and then you will have the money." If you
got the money first you would not learn anything. Any individual
could do it that way, but only a master would go ahead and leap
when there is no evidence that it could be done. Mastership is
believing yourself to be so in tune with the universe that all of
your needs will be met. As a word of encouragement, I would add
that miracles are the natural state of being. "When miracles
do not occur, something has gone wrong", as A Course
in Miracles states it.
Letting
the Universe Fix Our Limitations
Many years ago I worked at American Airlines. I spent most of
my days there enjoying the airplanes and being happy. I learned
not to share metaphysical talk with people too much, but one day
an engineer friend of mine approached me. He was a high stress
individual who was all business. Out of the blue he said to me
"You are the happiest human being that I have ever known. Could you teach me how to be that way?" Three weeks later
this man had a heart attack and underwent a triple bypass. The
universe answers all requests perfectly, regardless of the
appearances. It was teaching this man how to become happy! The
hospital that he went to had a new program for heart attack
patients that focused on changing their lifestyles. It taught him
that he was engaging in "type A" behavior and that if
he did not wish to experience another heart attack, he would just
have to learn to enjoy his family, take more time off and sit by
the lake. When I talked to him weeks later he said, "I
haven't felt this happy in years."
I didnt make him happy even though he ask me to. It is
the universe that answers all requests, no matter to whom the
request was directed. Whenever we know someone who is working on
a difficult issue, the best thing that we can do is to send them
unconditional love and unconditional support. We can't fix
anyone, but the universe can.
The reason that we do not buy into anyone's drama is because
we understand how consciousness creates reality. Never again
should we commiserate with someone who has a problem. Up until
now when we were approached by problem oriented people we
probably responded as society taught us, saying, "Oh, you
poor thing. That is so horrible that your husband had a triple
bypass. I am so sorry!" If consciousness creates reality,
then acknowledging tragedy helps create tragedy. To be useful to
them tune them out even though you've been told that is rude.
Do you know that people will only talk for so long when we
refuse to commiserate with them? In a very short time they will
go away. We can say, "Thank you for leaving - now I might be
able to help you with your problem and offer you true
support." Some of you may be telling yourself "Yeah,
but if I do that, I will lose my friends! All that we have ever
talked about was how bad it is!" That is correct. If you
want to follow your bliss and save the planet you will have to
release those friends.
In truth no one is ever lost so it is silly to worry about
losing negative people in our lives. When those people call us on
the telephone to commiserate, we are tempted to say "Oh, but
I don't want to hurt their feelings." Please hurt their
feelings! If we love them we will say "I have no time for
you now." Are we willing to do a whole other lifetime simply
because we don't want to hurt their feelings? It isn't worth it!
The next time around they will still be calling us until we say,
"I am sorry but I have no time for misery. I don't believe
in drama anymore. It is not something that I can accommodate in
my life. I am too busy following my bliss."
We
Can Accept the End of Drama
We have all experienced stressful lives and traumatic events. If we are growing spiritually we have to accept the fact that
hard times must end. Some people actually find themselves
floundering when things are too good. "You mean I can really
do anything that I want forever? Well, what will I do with myself
now?" Take a few minutes and review what it is that you have
been studying and training for throughout the last five hundred
life times. There is some creative, healing, fulfilling function
that you are better suited to do than anybody on earth. But we're
talking about karmic training here. It has occurred over a span
of thousands of lifetimes. Now it manifests as intuitive knowing. It is not concrete so far as the world is concerned.
Because whatever it is that you are really good at is
intuitive, it is not learned. You are like Beethoven. You
practice, but you didn't get your gift from going to music
school. Invariably, it seems, our karmic expertise lies in a
field that our parents claim is not worth doing. "What you
really ought to be is a doctor." "But Dad, I want to
play the guitar!" "That is not responsible, son, you
must become a doctor." If you turn out to be Segovia
reincarnated and they will not let you play the guitar you are
going to be very unhappy. You must do whatever is yours to do. But take heart, the consciousness of the planet is changing so
rapidly now that it will be quite easy to find your bliss.
One way to discover your own particular life path is to
practice for many consecutive days feeling your bliss. Ask
yourself each morning, "What do I most desire to do today
that will make me really happy?" Your bliss is not something
that will be carved on a slate and handed to you on the day that
God designates as your turn. Nor will the universe hand you a
manual of your bliss directing you to make a one hundred and
eighty degree turn from the way that you have been doing life. It
will not rip you out of your home and move you to another city
and then all of a sudden call you a servant of God. It will not
happen that way at all. Your bliss is something that you work
your way into by your willingness to give up the ought to's and
should's in your life. What's left is your bliss.
Following your heart is a very risky step for most human
beings, but it is the only way that individuals have been able to
tap into and express their personal creative genius. Those who
are recorded in our textbooks as the artists, inventors and
musicians were all misfit rebels. They were people who chose to
follow their bliss instead of doing what their fathers wanted
them to do for a living.
The only way to liberate the planet is to liberate yourself
first by following your own desire. Listen to the desires of your
heart and dismiss what your authority figures and the rest of
society taught you. Remember also that society has said that you
cannot be a doctor unless you get a medical degree. If that were
true, it would have left Jesus out in the cold. He was
technically never qualified to heal anybody, he just followed his
bliss.
Remember your yellow pad? Take your time in listing everything
that you have ever desired to do on the first pad of paper. Write
down anything you can think of that would make you happy. Include
every whim before your rational mind jumps in and tells you why
you cannot do that particular thing. "Well I would love to
be an artist" and your ego will say "You can't paint!
You don't have any training and you don't even know a watercolor
from an acrylic!" Save those comments for a second pad of
paper.
On the second pad you will list all of the reasons that you
cannot follow your bliss. All of the ought to's and should's from
your parents and your teachers will come to mind. Write down
every reason that they give you. Write until you feel satisfied
that you have exhausted the two lists. As you read the second pad
you will recall the miserable state of being that all of your
authority figures exist in. Then burn the second pad. You will be
left with only your bliss.
When we are new at following our bliss we often question
whether or not we have truly found it or whether we are letting
fear motivation creep in. There is a very simple way to tell the
difference. When we follow our ego, any situation will begin to
feel enormously complex. That is a reminder to back out, slow
down, take a deep breath and look for the light. When we find our
bliss, we will be in a state of timeless time. The pressure is
off. It might be sewing, climbing a tree, washing the dishes or
writing computer programs.
There is not a person on the planet who cannot remember what
timeless time feels like. Complexity will always contradict our
bliss. It will tell us that what we have been doing is too
important for us to abandon it and sit by the lake. That is when
we know that we desperately need to take the time off and sit by
the lake. It is a total reversal of the old way of doing things
that requires complete trust and faith in the universe.
Review your situation in your own mind now. Say "Well,
you know what I have always wanted to do was ...but ...my excuse
was..." Make the commitment to allow the universe to show
you how to move in that direction now. Let your creativity
flow. Your inspiration alone will contribute more than you will
ever know to the evolvement of mankind when you begin to live
life on your own terms.
Pattern
Makers - Do Your Thing!
I had a wonderful experience hearing Peter Nero play the piano
with the Tulsa Philharmonic Orchestra. (A friend had given me
orchestra seats.) Soon after they began their piece, Peter
started wandering from the script. He was improvising like crazy. The conductor was standing there grinning and waiting for him to
return to the score, but he kept on playing this magnificent
music. He had never played it before. He had never even seen it
before. All the while the audience was cheering him on. When I
looked at him I saw a horn of plenty radiating out from the back
of his heart chakra. It extended off into the heavens and all of
this music was pouring into the horn and running through his
body. He had no idea where it came from and if he had stopped to
figure it out the program would have ended in that instant. I was
sitting in that audience transfixed and in that same moment I got
that at home this man's toilet is leaking! Did he care?
Absolutely not. He did not have time to stay at home and fix the
toilet because he had to play. He was in the flow, he was living
consciously and he was following his heart's desire. When your
bliss comes, just do it.
What pattern would you set for the rest of the planet? What
would you have them doing right now? You know that most people do
not believe that they are free to do anything they want, but you
do understand the system. Always keep in mind who you are and
recognize that you are normal, so far as the universe is
concerned. The universe is full of god people for whom
unlimitedness is a simple way of life. Only on school house earth
do people believe that normalcy is struggle. You are here to help
them overcome that belief system. When struggle has ended there
is nothing but fun. It is so simple. No one was more simple than
the Buddha. He laughed all of the time. He made it possible for
other entities to attain enlightenment, simply because he enjoyed
his.
Having fun is your work now. It is what every master teacher
has tried to get people to do so they too could become free. The
purpose of all the activity in your life is enjoyment. That,
incidentally, goes along with saving the planet. If you are
ecstatically happy, who is going to pick that up? Everybody! And
no one has to be in your physical presence for it to rub off
because we are all attuned to your telepathic presence. If you do
only that which is the most fun for you to do, you will bring
forth inventions, awakening, inspiration and healing. You will
have the planet so charged that there will be no stopping her
until she goes up in lights! But it will only happen when you
make the decision to follow your bliss. Blessed are those who no
longer ask permission to be who they are, for they are the
saviors of the planet. And that is the way that it really is.
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