Who You Are and What You're Doing Here

Mar 8

The information you acquired in the growing up process, particularly in years 0-7, was information that you gained by way of the senses. You smelled it, touched it, heard it, saw it, tasted it and intuited it, and the mind said, “Well, that must be the way it is.” Love is this, life is this, pain is this, etc. marriage is this, etc. That’s not knowledge, that’s not truth.

That’s your experience of the physical. But the mind doesn’t see the essence of the thing. You observe with the eyes but you see with the heart…and here we go again, from physical to metaphysical. Wisdom is acquired by exceeding what your senses are telling you…but we are not trained or developed to do that.

I refer to this process as perceptual reciprocity…what you see is what you get…but it doesn’t mean that what you see is really there.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

The senses don’t know anything about this but the soul, the spirit does. Of course, it’s true. It doesn’t mean that there aren’t evil people…it means they are created equal by the same entity that created you. When the mind sees something moving around, it sees stuff that it thinks is real…and by the way, it then establishes space as the realm in which the stuff is moving around. When it sees that stuff changing, it establishes the element of time along with the space. But we have to learn to see beyond the senses, to see that the content is not context. The senses pick up on the content…the spirit picks up on the context. The senses know about physical experience but little about spiritual existence, and confuses the two all of the time. The quality of your life hangs in the balance.

All of us have a tendency to isolate a small little bit of understanding and template the entire world with it…you have a disagreement with a certain person who is not of your ethnicity and from that disagreement state that all people of the ethnicity are like that. I was in a taxi cab in France speaking with the driver and I asked him, “What do you think about Americans?” He said, Americans are generous and hopeful. I know a lot who are not. He then described all of the races in a couple of adjectives each, a couple of which didn’t do very well under his scrutiny.

The highest wisdom always sees things through the whole and the details are just byproducts of the mind. You know this is true because when you were little, there was someone in your life that when you made a mistake, they saw through the mistake, and saw the real you and communicated to you in that way. It was a mistake…it didn’t mean that was who you were. The greatest learning is always moving toward synthesis and unity.

In our country today in 2020, there are a lot of talented people who use their power and talent to divide. Anyone can do that. Where is the one who can unite? That’s a lot harder. Said another way, there are a lot of smart people out there who don’t know what they’re doing.

When you can look at yourself from a distance, let’s say 10 feet way, and you can look with detached but attentive eyes, you see a remarkable human being, entrenched in a self-imposed mindset that deceives him or her, that carries a distorted blueprint not of himself / herself but of the world. All this person wants is to be fulfilled, joyful, prosperous but somehow got sidetracked along the way. But you can see that your behavior came not from Truth, not from your heart but from the need to survive, from your fear.

Now if you keep backing up, you see there’s a world that all of this taking place in. It is a world that existed long before you were born and is going to go on long after you pass away. Wouldn’t that suggest that the world exists for itself and not for us as individuals, that maybe it has its own miraculous objectives to fulfill, its own will?

Now, this doesn’t mean that you’re not important or that you don’t have a role to play but what it would suggest is that it’s not all about you. In fact, if you back up another 20 feet, would you be willing to consider that you are, in fact, essential for the process to play out? You are not the whole thing but you are part of the whole thing…and so is everything and everybody else.

But until you understand the whole, understand what the whole is doing and why it is doing it, you cannot know what your part is. Make sense? Now, if you look at everything in the physical world, you see that everything is moving, including your pets, your home, you, your loved ones, civilizations, countries, continents, planets, galaxies…everything you see in your world is heading out the door and one day will disappear,

It could be said that the whole is stable but that Stability within each of the parts is impossible.

Nonetheless, you see that everything is connected but from the human perspective, humans don’t know they’re connected, each carving out an existence on a daily basis without an understanding of their part in the whole play, but the movement of each part, however small, carries an effect on all of the other parts. So, now observe only yourself but from a distance once again. You can see that it takes as much energy to be miserable, unfulfilled, enraged as it does to be peaceful, enlightened, loving. Repression or expression. Being positive, being negative. Things ending, things beginning. But going where? Doing what? What is the objective? What is the purpose playing out behind the visible movement of all physical life?

You see through the movement to a greater unfolding, of an Existence, a consciousness that is beyond form, beyond quantification or qualification, that your life is taking place in the realm of the relative, in the middle of duality, while it being held in perfect balance and harmony in the whole.

Once the part releases and disappears from the relative, from your everyday life, it moves back into the whole but once it does, the part is no longer described in the terms that were used when it moved about in the physical. It rejoins the source, the whole, the absolute, the consciousness that brought it about in the first place.

Plants on River Poster5.png — Your becoming is you.

never ending, always moving, always up to something!

All things that are conditions and appearance of the movement pass into that from which they have come and there, can no longer be described by the terms that were appropriated to them in the movement.

The movement is the world of the relative, the world of Time in which the part that arises in the movement through birth is made of the Absolute, is the Absolute in physical form.

Each part, unfolding over Time, changes, evolves, creating more and more perfected forms of living and being such that you can see that you are your becoming.

And what is its objective? It is the joy of realizing itself in the movement, in the physical. Sometimes you contract because of the pain, the struggle, fear.

Sometimes you expand through the release, the realization, the strength…but always moving but without being able your own condition except through your senses. And your senses only see stuff and stuff that’s moving around. And not knowing what it is or why it’s moving around, the little part becomes lost in its own interpretation that came not by way of the absolute, of the consciousness from which it came but by way of its own mind, its own system, its own GPS.

But now, do something simple…ask yourself…what is the whole doing? Why is the whole doing it? So, now, consider that the part, (you), has done the best it could to make up a story as to what the whole is about and what the little part is doing. But now, simply out of choice, make up something else. You’re not going to be concerned about proving it because you can’t. You’re not going to be concerned about quantifying it because you can’t.

But just because you can’t prove it, that doesn’t mean it’s not true. It means it’s not true for you.

So, let’s do it. Let’s change the rules. Let’s affirm, let’s go beyond belief and know that the sole, absolute object of the process of the little part in the big whole is the joy of the becoming, the bliss of the unfolding of you having the realization that you were never separate, never alone, never abandoned and that you can’t do anything and I mean anything to change the fact that you are IT, you are the consciousness from which you came to realize this in physical form.

The object of your life in the tossing and turning of the daily grind IS reaching the realization that you ARE the joy, not that you just have joy but that you ARE the joy. You ARE the thing from which you have come…and always will be, no matter how you destroy yourself, no matter how you cloak your mind with ignorance and judgment and belief. So, try it on for size, right now, whether you’re driving your car, flying to another city, cleaning the house, exercising.

Don’t just feel joy. Be joy.

You begin to see that instead of relying on luck or a miracle or on all your money or possessions, you begin to see that you can trust the unfolding, you can trust the divine in which you are held in balance and safety…that you can let go. You begin to see that instead of relying on keeping up the Jones and trying to be something that somebody else wants you to be that you begin to see that you can trust the unfolding, you can trust the divine in which you are held in balance and safety…that you can let go.

You begin to see that instead of depending on others and needing the acceptance of others, you begin to see that you can trust the unfolding, you can trust the divine in which you are held in balance and safety…that you can let go. It’s like handing a crying child some candy…where did the upset suddenly go?

How funny it is to say that the only way you’re ever going to be happy is that you’re going to have to be out of your mind! But it’s true. The truth of evolution and the will behind evolution is not going to be found in death but in life, exactly where you are right now. The battlefield is not the world…it’s not your parents or your boss…it is not outside of you…it is inside of you…you are the battlefield.

If the soul of any individual had not already found its way into the physical body in the first place, how or why would you feel the desire within to live a larger life, to become more than what you have become, why would you feel discontented? If it’s not already within you, then you can’t become it. But, of course, it is inside of you and you are in the process of becoming it. From metaphysical to physical, from the absolute to the relative, from the timeless to time, consider that it is time to back up 20 feet and see the truth of who you are.