No Time For Karma Stepping off the Wheel of Pain and Struggle by © Paxton Robey
Chapter 4
THE
PLAN OF SALVATION
Enlightenment is very intriguing to folks who are on the path. Sometimes we think of enlightenment as being something that a
Buddha or a Krishna can hand down to us on a silver platter. We
want to believe that if Christ came down and kissed us on the
forehead that we would become awakened. Actually enlightenment
has nothing to do with any master teacher or even god, god, very
god most high. It is simply a matter of changing our perspective.
To get a feel for what true enlightenment is, we have to get a
feel for what we are, truly. Who we really are and what we happen
to see while we are in this three dimensional reality are two
entirely different things. Who we are is who we have always been,
aspects of God. As an individualization of God, each of us
possesses all of the immutable characteristics that we attribute
to God. Our true nature can be stated by recalling all of the
words we would use to describe the unlimited, omnipotent,
omniscient, loving creator of the universe.
But we don't see ourselves this way. As we look through the
dimness of our limited belief systems we assign to ourselves the
characteristics of what we think we see as the true nature of the
world around us. And what we perceive to be the nature of the
world, we perceive in error. For we have been looking on our
world with the eyes of the authority figures who raised us, not
with cosmic vision.
There seem to be two realities. One, which is theoretical to
most of us, is the lofty reality of God consciousness, the state
of awareness where enlightened beings surely dwell. The other,
which is the nitty gritty "real" world that we live in,
is the one where our attention is focused ninety nine percent of
the time. Many spiritual seekers, both orthodox and unorthodox,
believe that it is within the power of enlightened beings to
transport us from one state of consciousness into the other. 'tain't so.
Graduates
of Earth School Return
The plan of salvation is simply a scheme whereby individuals
who have figured out a little bit of the puzzle will share their
information with anyone who is interested. So graduates of this
school occasionally return for "back to school day."
They tell us some good stories about who we are and what our true
nature is. What we do with that information is entirely up to us.
These returning graduates tell us that the natural state of
being in all of the universes is joy, bliss, no stress, no
pressure, abundance, adventure, excitement, peace and love. If
this was not the natural condition then no entity could ever
attain these characteristics permanently. If these states were
abnormal then one would have to continually be paddling upstream
to be at peace - a contradiction in terms.
On the other hand, they tell us that pain, struggle, pressure,
stress, tragedy, and conflict are the abnormalities in the
universe. And one truly must paddle up stream to maintain a state
of discomfort. They tell us that we paddle upstream by defending
our beliefs even though our beliefs haven't made us happy. They
say that if we will stop paddling up stream it will be the
stream's good pleasure to include us in the natural flow of the
universe.
One of the errors in belief that we usually defend is that we
are separate individuals. They tell us this is one belief that we
must give up if we don't want it to continue to be
"me against the universe". Each of us is a part of the
universe. No - each of us is the universe. No entity can
attain enlightenment alone because "alone" is an
impossible absurdity so far as the true reality is concerned.
Instantaneous
vs. Evolutionary Enlightenment
Although anything in this universe is possible, the
instantaneous enlightenments that happen when someone is walking
down the road to Damascus and the light comes and truth is
revealed, usually only occur after we have been working on
ourselves for fifteen million years or so. Awakening is not
instantaneous at all because this is an evolutionary system.
If you were to visit a guru in the East, he would tell you to
sit down and shut up and watch your breath for twenty years and
then you might be ready to learn something. In the West we are
far too impatient for gurus. We would rather spend five hundred
dollars for an intensive weekend seminar that promises us instant
enlightenment. We like to believe that we have completed our
prerequisites for instant awakening.
Well, the trip back home is nothing more than looking in the
mirror and seeing that I am that I am. Each of us is god, god,
very god most high and that is what we have always been since the
beginning of creation, but we must go through an evolutionary
process to come back to the place where we can remember that
truth.
If we are honest we must admit that our spiritual pursuit is
not motivated by the fact that we love God or want to go to the
light. In truth we do not care about any of that - we just want
the pressure off! We want the pain and struggle to end and that
is the only reason that we seek. No one need feel guilty about
his or her motivation. We don't have to say "Gosh, I'm not
being very spiritual about this..." It is the way that the
system was created to work.
The universe has always understood what motivates humans. Instead of judging us, it simply takes advantage of our human
nature to lead us back to God. The universe knew that we were not
going to do anything too altruistic. The plan of salvation is not
only perfect, it is downright practical. If someone is trying to
learn truth for the purpose of ending her poverty or curing her
disease, she will end up with God. The universe does not expect
any more of us than that we end our own suffering. Then we will
wake up one day to find that we have remembered our unlimited
natural state of being.
The
Fall of Man
Attaining enlightenment is the very same process as attaining
unenlightenment was. We all started out as perfect individualized
pieces of God. Then, as explorers, we began experimenting with
states of being other than "perfect". We tried on
limitation for size. Limitation is fun and intriguing. Many
people enjoy finding their way out of mazes. The point we must
remember is that, somewhere along the way, we voluntarily allowed
our belief systems, our perceptions, to become limited. It wasn't
done to us. It was done by us. Our free will has
never been violated. We were not carried kicking and screaming
from a state of infinite awareness into a state of limitation. Because our free will can never be violated, we must use
the very same ability to make choices about what we will believe
and with which eyes we will see, to regain our enlightenment. There is no vicarious atonement.
This earth was created by entities who journeyed forth into
the universe as explorers. We are all adventurers. Mankind's
entire history is an exploration of new lands, new continents,
the moon in the heavens and the depths of the sea. It is the same
for those who dwell in the rest of the universe too. The founders
of this school chose to explore all of the realms of reality that
they could think to create, and they created them in the moment
that they envisioned them. When you start from the allness there
is only one way to go. That was the beginning of our descent
process loosely referred to as "the fall" in the Bible.
Unlimited beings who were used to living in an infinite number
of dimensions declared, "This is boring. Let's try living in
one hundred millionth dimensional reality. Oh, this is fun and
exciting, but I'm getting tired of it. Let's go back to the
light. Now let's go down and try one thousandth dimensional
reality - that will really be confined. We'll have to work our
way out of that one. What a challenge! It's so dense down here
that there is even color. This is magical but I am ready to go
back to the light. Okay let's try third dimensional reality on
our next trip. 3-D is so limited it is almost not being! Wow this
is barely existing! Oh God, it is so confined that things are
solid. We've never had solidity before. Let's play! I want to be
a goat. I want to be a tree. I want to be an archangel. This is
great down here but let's go back to the ... what? The where? I
forgot. Where is that window? Where is that door? Uh oh - I think
I'm trapped."
There comes a point at which we have pulled down so many
shades that there is not enough light to find our way home. Then
we say, "I know there is a door here somewhere so let's
start looking. That's it - we'll become seekers!" We used to
be knowers but now we are seekers. And our friends who were still
living in the light said, "Hey you guys down there, it's
okay. We'll create a plan of salvation to get you home" to
which we replied, "Don't you tell us what to do. We have
free will!" Exasperated, they said "Okay, we won't
violate your free will. We'll let you suffer for as long as you
like but when you are ready we'll have someone down there for you
to follow home. He won't drag you. You'll have to follow
him."
Every time that someone has come down here to show us the door
we made a savior out of him or her. We called them messiahs. Actually it was only Harry or Sue who came down to help us find
the door. The plan of salvation is not "divine" at all
- - it is common sense. It is nothing more than people helping
people who have pulled down too many shades to see the light.
The
Priests and The Prophets
In compliance with the plan, at the beginning of every
astrological age a master has always appeared on the earth to
take the simple truth -- and truth is always simple -- and
restate it in the language of the day rather than the language of
the old. They laid out the guidelines for that new age. When the
teachings were first spoken they were just good spiritual common
sense. Whether it was a Buddha or Abraham or Mohammed, they all
said something that would clarify and simplify the current dogma. Through time, the teachers became deified and their students
could no longer relate to them. Along with the deification of the
teachers, the teachings were altered. As time passes, spiritual
teachings begin to include the interpretations and opinions of
the "priests". Dogma takes over.
There have always been two types of teachers on the planet
the priests and the prophets. The prophets bring great insight to
the people through their intuitive atunement to spirit. The
priests take the prophet's words and make them sacred and then
tell everybody else how to do life. They tell us to have great
reverence for the master and to idolize all teachers. They make a
divinity out of a Jesus and a God out of a Buddha which makes
them seem like something that we can never be. The true masters
never wanted to be on any body's pedestal. Jesus himself spent
much of his time saying "I'm not your king, I'm your
brother!" and then the priests turned around and made a God
out of him. As spiritual students we have all heard that we
should have great reverence for the hierarchy, the logos and the
angelic kingdoms. We put them out in the sanctuary or on our
alters to worship them. But our guidance doesn't come from the
shrines, it comes from within us.
For the dedicated spiritual student the time of the priest has
ended. Soon, the time of the prophetic voice that is separate
from our inner voice, will also end. Those outer voices were
appropriate in the ages where individuals did not have concrete
connections with their own guidance. When folks did not have
clear inner vision they needed the teacher to say, "if you
don't want to take another ten thousand trips around the cycle,
here is a path to follow."
Paths,
Gurus and Service
Paths are extremely useful to students whose intuitive selves
have not been fully developed. However, since a path is someone
else's idea of what we require in order to get home, there comes
a time at which we must wean ourselves from the path. Ultimately
the only path that will be expedient for us is the one
communicated to us by our inner voice.
Discretion is called for here. Avoid making judgments (errors
in perception) about whether someone else is on the right path or
not. We are talking about expediting our own personal trip to
joy, not what other people need. Each one chooses for himself.
We, as masters in training, go through an experimental phase,
trial and error if you will, of gaining confidence in our inner
guidance. We test our inner voice. Sometimes what we think is the
inner voice of God is the inner voice of ego - and we blow it. That's OK. We can try again, and if need be we can return to the
guru outside of ourselves for advice.
As we wean ourselves from dependence on gurus, master
teachers, and even parents, we can stay connected with them if we
like. But we change how we see them. We remove them from the
pedestals, no longer to follow in blind faith, and we place them
in a chair at our mental conference table as advisors.
Much of what we are discussing here is just a matter of
semantics. We have believed that there were teachers outside of
ourselves and knowledge outside of ourselves. So we have been
used to seeking for wisdom in that which is outside of ourselves. This is okay to the universe. It teaches within the frame work of
our belief system. But we also know that the only thing we can
see outside of ourselves is that which is a part of us. What we
see as reality is a mirror. We are just trying some tricks here
to help us remember that I am the wisdom I seek. Enlightenment is
remembering.
There are many forms of gurus. The guru can be a person
(living or dead), a book, a philosophy or a tradition. What ever
it is, it has two sides to it. It contains some elements of truth
and some elements of human distortion. So whether your guru has
been Jesus, the Bible, A Course in Miracles, the Bagavid
Gita, the Native American tradition, nature, the mystery
school teachings, or one of the modern "channellers" of
the ancient wisdom, don't take it too seriously. If you place
more value on the literal words, or rituals, of the guru than you
do on your own inner hunches and insights, you are in for a long,
slow, and maybe stressful, trip. Nothing out there is
"sacred". It is just what it is.
If at this point in human development, paths and gurus and
teachings had never been invented, it wouldn't matter. The
universe would immediately come up with a new trick to get us to
discover our true nature. And it would do it without violating
our free wills.
Whether we see ourselves as path walkers, former path walkers
or as observers of path walkers, it is useful in our training as
spiritual teachers to explore the paths that have evolved out of
the human condition. One of the first things that seekers learn
on their paths is that we are related to all of humankind. That
alters one's picture of reality dramatically. Out of this
understanding spiritual students sooner or later develop a sense
of purpose. Our mission, our path, as it becomes slowly apparent,
seems to be to serve other people.
The head guru of nearly every path sometimes suggests, or
implies, what method of service is appropriate. But, as we
continue to unfold and experiment with our inner connection with
the cosmic, we reveal to ourselves our own unique form of service
to humankind. The more that we evolve, the more we recognize that
we all have the same goals generally. Our uniqueness is in how
we help implement peace and understanding on earth. One person
does it as a computer programmer and another as a mail clerk. Literally there are no two paths of service that are the same
even though the objective of all of them is to outpicture oneness
with God.
Somewhere near the end of our journey through time and space,
awakening mankind discovers that we are not related to other
people at all - - we are the other people. Each person,
regardless of awareness, is an aspect of God. Each person has all
of the attributes and characteristics of God. The goal of the
awakening student shifts from fixing people and situations which
seem to be in error into becoming a living example of the
healing, loving power of the divine principle. When individuals
function from a sense of being separate from other people, they
equate doing anything for the self as conceit. But when they
function with awareness they understand that there is but one
mind, one heart and one soul in all of the universes. So to serve
the self is to serve all that is. Not only do we all deserve
lots of wonderful things in our lives, we must learn that
prosperity and perfect health and inner peace are the natural
state of being. You cannot give a gift that you do not possess.
All paths end at the beginning. All paths end when the
disciple has the audacity to say "I talk with God - - I Am
God!"
The
Bible as a Path
The Bible can be looked at as a path - a path that each of us
has been following for ages. It starts with the purely karmic way
of an eye for an eye. Then Moses (representing one who
understands cosmic law) tries to lead the children of Israel (the
seekers) out of the wilderness (the stressed life). After many
generations of wars (led by the intellectuals) a great master
teacher shows up. The teacher states the truth in parables (each
must interpret in the context of their own subjective reality). Then comes many years of interpretation of the teacher's words in
the letters to the various churches (representing our internal
process of trying to reconcile our newly remembered
"truth" with our old internal staid institutions - our
habits and beliefs). The Bible is not, nor is any other spiritual
guide book, about external events and philosophies. It is a
metaphor for our personal internal process. Nothing exists
external to ourselves.
The last book in the Bible is Revelations. Here is where
things are revealed to the seeker directly. There can't be any
more books after Revelation. After we reach this point in our
development we know that their are no more answers "out
there." The answers must now be revealed internally. The
evolution of the soul doesn't end here, just the book.
Initiation into mastership means that a person releases all
the spiritual crutches and does their demonstration relying
strictly on their inner guidance. It can be a fearful step. It
has been referred to as "the dark night of the soul."
Jesus revealed his personal struggle with this step when he cried
out, "my God, my God, why have you abandoned me?"
When a person reaches that critical level of trust where they
shift from making decisions based on the input of authority
figures or other gurus to relying on inner guidance, hazy though
it may be, then they are on the way to becoming self empowered. It is another paradox because when you discover that you are not
separate from anyone or anything you become self empowered as an
individual.
It is time to acknowledge and pay respect to our own path of
individual experience. Actually there are as many plans of
salvation as there are human beings because reality is subjective
and unique. No one has ever experienced what another person has
experienced. No one can do what you can do and no one can be who
you can be. You cannot follow a path that is not in harmony with
who you are. Whatever you chose to do is okay with the universe. Whatever your goal is, it will take you home. If you want to save
the planet, you will end up healing yourself. If you want to heal
yourself, you will end up saving the planet. The system is
perfect.
The
Western Path
When we begin to see life as a series of paradoxes, we are on
our way to seeing the big picture. We do not need avatars in the
western world because no one would believe them. If Sai Baba
himself walked into our work place and started talking, it just
would not, in all likelihood, have a positive effect on our
coworkers. If we want to teach in the western world we have to
comprehend the western mind which demands that a teacher sound
intelligent. Therefore it is very appropriate for us to read a
lot of books and learn all of the vocabulary so that we will
sound like we really have our act together. But we do not
actually learn anything from the books. They merely trigger
remembrances of that which has always been inside of us. If it
had truly been new information it would have taken ten thousand
lifetimes to understand.
There is no possible way to learn spiritual truth in one month
of reading, if it is new to us. The ease with which we absorb
"new" ideas is absolute proof that all we do is
reconnect to information that we temporarily lost access to. Any
understanding that a person gets is always intuitive. If words
made people comprehend truth then everybody would gain the same
understanding from a spiritual talk. But no two people ever hear
the same meaning. Awakening is the process of remembering what we
knew a million years ago, or before time began. So another
paradox is that while the only understanding that we will ever
have comes from our inner being, we would never make it without
the books, tapes, sunsets and music that we all need as continual
reminders while we are immersed in this telepathic pool.
The
Path Called A Course in Miracles
One of the statements that exists among millions of statements
of truth is A Course in Miracles. For people in the
western world with the western programming of intellect and
technology as king, I believe that the Course is the best
modern guide that exists in written form to get us home. The Course
in Miracles tells us that where we want to go is to
inner peace and that anything else we have been seeking creates a
delay in attaining healing or happiness. The way the human mind
has been programmed is to say that it wants peace, happiness and
joy but then it goes out to buy houses and cars which will only
bring payments, debt and stress. We all have a tendency to go
after things that we do not want, thinking that they will bring
us what we do want. Our programming has always said to seek
happiness but don't find it.
The Course tells us that the intermediate steps that we
go after will never satisfy us. The message of all three of the Course
books can be summarized in one statement: In every moment of
every day, use the power of your will to choose peace. If you can
do that you will be home free. The master teachers have also told
us to go directly to God. They said do not pass go and do
not collect two hundred dollars - just go directly. But we like
to hedge our bets. We don't want to abandon the wisest earth
teachers yet. We think that it is too big of a step to go
directly to God so we try to embrace just a little bit of cosmic
consciousness instead.
A Course in Miracles is not a theological book. Theologians argue semantics and the meaning of God. They create
universities to take a left brain approach to spirituality. They
do not understand that people can argue forever without finding
an answer. Any argument or debate is insisting that one person
must be right and either convince his opponent that his point of
view is correct or find out what is right so he can support that
perspective. Theologians try to be right. Let's seek, instead, a
state of cosmic consciousness, and stop trying to use words to
prove to others that we have value. We cannot be right and
happy. Every time we choose to play the game according to the
rules of love, growth and understanding will emerge.
The Course attempts to prepare us for a way of thinking
which is contrary to the world's way of thinking. As Einstein
said, "a problem cannot be solved from the same
consciousness that created it." We have to be willing to
have our thoughts and beliefs scrapped in favor of ones that
work. The Course is blunt. It goes right to the heart of
the matter in the most expedient manner. It is rejected by those
people who have not become sufficiently frustrated with an
analytical approach to life to be willing to risk a new approach.
Some folks can't get through the table of contents with out
their analytical minds being offended because if what is being
said is true then their education and their personal code of life
has all been for naught. The table of contents of the workbook
starts out with:
Nothing I see...means anything.
I have given everything I see...all the meaning that it
has for me
I do not understand anything I see..
These thoughts do not mean anything...
I am never upset for the reason I think.
Other lesson headings are:
I do not perceive my own best interests.
I do not know what anything is for.
I am not the victim of the world I see.
I have invented the world I see.
There is nothing to fear.
I am entitled to miracles.
God's will for me is perfect happiness.
In my defenselessness my safety lies.
We in the western world have been well educated to believe
that we are responsible for being vigilant and discerning in
regards to the world, which is basically to be regarded as
hostile. We have been taught to analyze every situation to find
the correct course of action. We are cautious. We are cautious in
relationships. We are cautious in politics. We are cautious in
regards to other nations. We are cautious of power hungry people. Our training has been appropriate if the one basic premise of
western education is true - we are all separate.
Think for a moment about what your professor of history or
economics would say about some of the above statements. They
would say that obviously any rational mind would know that in the
case of foreign military powers the statement about "in my
defenselessness my safety lies" is just not true.
What kind of education would we receive if "Nothing I see
means anything" were true. Not even the stock prices? Not
even the gruesome pictures on the evening news?
A reversal of our thinking process is required to get off of
the wheel of karma. The world's thinking is karmic thinking. It
recreates old patterns over and over again, forever, if need be. The only way to get something out of the Course is to set
aside judgment of what we are reading (I think the authority
figures told us that would be akin to being brain washed). The
world's way doesn't work so why not risk trusting that the
universe is on our side and won't lead us astray?
I can't resist. I have to throw a couple of more Course-isms
in.
Would you rather be right or happy. You can't be both.
Analysis is of the ego.
Everything is for your own best interests.
Trust would settle every problem now.
Happiness
as A Path
All paths, all spiritual disciplines of all cultures and all
ages, of all time, lead to one simple place and that is being
happy. Happiness cures all disease, it stops all wars. It fixes
everything. The Course points out that happiness is a
choice we make. There are no victims to those who understand the
big picture. Authority figures teach us, however, that the only
things that are real are things that can be perceived with the
five senses, that victimization is very real and must be
conquered before happiness can be attained. Here is the rub: we
must choose whether to believe the best minds on the
planet or whether to believe the master teachers. It is an
either/or situation. One can't be partially enlightened any more
than one can be slightly pregnant. How many thousands of pages
are humans going to read before they realize that enlightenment
can't be learned or attained through rational behavior.
What if we all said "I will not wait until I learn one
more thing or read one more book before I decide to be
happy?" We really have only one choice to make. Believe the
authority figures and stay on the wheel of karma or quit. Try
this for me - go somewhere where you are alone, take a deep
breath, and scream "I quit". You will experience a
great sense of relief, at least until you start analyzing what
your friends will think about you now that you don't do struggle
any more. Happiness is a choice that we make within ourselves.
Why doesn't everybody have everything that they desire? Why do
we spend our whole lives thinking that after we make it we will
have what we want? Nobody ever makes it that way. The majority of
the people on the planet today are not yet ready to do the whole
awakening process because their limitations have been lifelong
friends. They are unwilling to let go of their old patterns and
beliefs. So when it becomes obvious to the loving universe that
they are absolutely refusing to change, it will check them out
and check them back in again to start all over. People who do not
understand how the system works call that tragedy but it is not
really tragic at all. It is love and true compassion to back a
person out of a bad thing and give him another shot.
The
True Teaching is Always Simple and Calming
Often we are afraid of missing out on some great teaching by
some great guru. But now that we have ceased looking for
intellectual meaning in their words and have decided to only hear
the simple message of their hearts, we realize they have all said
the same thing. You can go sit at the feet of Sai Baba for the
next six months and he will tell you one thing - "be
love." People go all the way to India and sit with thousands
of others waiting for this avatar to come out on a balcony and
tell them something that they don't know, and all he says is
"be love." Up the road somewhere is Mer Baba, another
avatar, and folks flood to see him as well. In all of the time
that he has been incarnate on the planet he has only told people
to do one thing - "be happy". That is all the man has
ever said. How simple spirituality is. Any teaching which feels
complex is of the ego. Spirit is the epitome of simplicity.
People often ask "how can I tell if my inner voice is ego
or spirit?" Ego loves complexity and intricacies. Spirit
functions outside the realm of three dimensional time space. Spirit's voice is always soft, unhurried, no pressure. To spirit
there is no time so you can't be late. To spirit there are no
irreversible situations so nothing is a big deal. Spirit says
"Peace, be still, and know that I am God."
Congratulations!
You Qualify for Enlightenment
If you could see what you have been doing for the last ten
million years, you would understand that you have already done
everything that is required in this school to attain
enlightenment. You have done your life in Egypt and in Greece and
you have done the witch craft and the magic. This is not the life
to do it all again. Take all that you have learned and apply it
to empower your own being this time around, instead of learning
it all again. This is the life where Nike has got it right when
they say, "Just do it!"
Do not wait until you read one more book or listen to another
speaker or sit at the feet of one more guru before you become
happy. At this stage in your evolution that would just delay your
joy. Go ahead and read esoteric books and travel to India if you
want. But don't believe that it will give you inner peace. It
won't. Choose peace first and then do your exploring as a part of
your dance of life. Peace isn't to be found outside of ourselves.
Remember that the universe is on your side and in every
instant it is conspiring to awaken you, to lead you to happiness. That means that in this very moment you are in the most ideal
situation possible for you to learn to awaken. There could not be
a more perfect place for you at this moment than where you are. That is cosmic law. Don't hear that statement as saying that you
should stay in the place you are now. Where your perfect
place is two moments down the road from now is up to you and your
inner guides.
Sai Baba doesn't need for you to come and sit at his feet. He
is over booked as it is. He needs you to be true to yourself and
live based on your heart so you can be an equal teacher with him.
The only thing left now is to simply wake up! Declare in this
instant that you can walk out the door and be happy forever more. No person, no church and no book can change you now. The universe
loves you so much that every time you go looking for an answer
outside of yourself you are going to find frustration. You are in
no man's land. You cannot go back because there is not a single
guru on the planet who will have you as a student. They will all
have you as a friend.
The whole plan of salvation is one of teaching and being
taught by those who are just a hair's width apart from us in
understanding. We can only hear people who are that close to
where we are on the ladder and they are the only ones who can
hear us. That holds true for folks who are in body or out of
body. Each person will only attract to himself that which he can
comprehend. It would not be helpful for an enlightened being to
drop into the average person's living room and start making a
speech. Joe Normal would have no idea what was being said!
Most of us need a teacher who is street wise, that we can
relate to, like an entity who has had bills to pay and problems
at the office and people to argue with. In the practical world of
helping each other with our challenges we have finally discovered
that the best drug counselors are former addicts. The leaders in
the Alcoholics Anonymous movement are former alcoholics. That's
the way it works here. The training that each person received by
going through their own garbage has qualified them as very
effective listeners and healers (if healing has been
requested). Spiritual counseling works the same way. Spiritual
students tend to give credence to teachers who came to this
planet with a load of garbage and somehow managed to let go and
do their personal transformation.
It is now up to each individual whether the rest of the planet
will be transformed. Some of you may be asking "What do I
have to do? What is the schedule? Give me my agenda!" The
truth of the matter is so simple that it will offend your
intellect. All that you have to do is heal yourself, to choose
peace in every moment. We are on this earth to be examples of
enlightened entities and there is no mystery to what it means to
be enlightened anymore. It used to be this huge enigma. We would
read books about people who had light radiating out from the
crown of their heads and could do marvelous tricks. But all of
the magic in the world is irrelevant if you have not healed
yourself.
What happens to the earth if each of us learns to be
impeccably happy in this lifetime? Do you know that your joy will
radiate through group consciousness in the telepathic pool and
touch every molecule on this planet? It will penetrate every
brain cell of every human being incarnate because you are a part
of the telepathic pool on this planet. When you learn how to have
fun, the game is over. When you can laugh and play in every
moment, you will graduate and look back to wonder what all of
that esoteric nonsense that everyone was talking about really
meant. You will find the rest of eternity enormously joyful.
Your whole divinity and having the light dwell within you
simply has to do with learning to be happy. Acknowledge within
yourself that you accept joy because you can't learn it and you
can't earn it. You must claim it.
Happiness is a decision that is made within the individual. When you decide to be joyful you will come into your own power
and begin to do transformation of group consciousness in a very
big way. Salvation has always been the ultimate in simplicity. When you laugh, play, get tipsy, talk to the trees, be silly,
make love, watch sunsets, take bubble baths and have a ball,
then, like the Pied Piper, a million other souls will want to
follow you home.
Chapter 5
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