A New Beginning ... A New Paradigm ...

The chronological history of the Human race is but a chapter in the evolutionary unfoldment of Cosmic Being.

The Selfhood of the Human species is synonymous with the I AM of God; and our evolving consciousness of Self is thus one and the same with God’s own awakening to Himself.

History is not the biography of Man, and of the progressive revealing of God’s purpose and meaning for Man— it is, rather, the revealing of Mankind as a larval stage in the evolutionary metamorphosis of Living Light. It is the enduring autobiography of the unfolding Being of God, the somnolence and eventual anamnesis of Cosmic Being incarnate in Humankind.

We must henceforth examine the religious history of Humankind, not as the progressive revealing of God’s meaning and purpose for us, but rather as the evolutionary unfoldment of the true nature and destiny of our divinely Human species— as the lucid dreaming of a slumbering God slowly awakening in us, a Planetary Being surfacing consciously in each and every man, woman and child the world over.

+LET NOW BE ALWAYS+

How Low Can We Go? How High Can We Get?

Have you heard? Pope Benedict XVI has all but banished ‘Limbo’ from the Catholic lexicon. The ITC report that bears his approval regards ‘Limbo’ as a mere “theological hypothesis,” based upon an “unduly restrictive view of salvation.” The report also states that there are “serious” grounds for the hope that children who die without the sacrament of baptism can indeed “go to heaven” after all.

The Rev. Luis Ladaria, the ITC’s secretary-general, has stressed that there can be “no certainty” in this new hypothesis, “just hope.” The document itself states that there are “reasons for prayerful hope, rather than grounds for sure knowledge." No one can know for certain what becomes of unbaptized infants, the report claims, because “Scripture is largely silent on the matter.”


In fact, this same Scripture (namely, the ‘Old Testament,’ a Latinized version of the Jewish Tanakh; and the ‘New Testament,’ a bastardized redaction of the Aramaic Peshitta) is largely silent on all matters pertinent to the existence of individual being and consciousness on the other side of the grave. The Holy Books of the Bible say nothing at all about ‘life after death.’ These scriptures speak only of individual being and consciousness on this side of the grave — our mortal life here and now on Earth.

Heaven (Aramaic, SHEM-AYAH) is always spoken of by Jesus as a Kingdom, or state-of-being, here on Earth, in our midst, right at hand. It is never once referred to as a blissful hyperstasis of the dead. Hell (Hebrew, SHEOL or GEHENNA) was, historically, a valley located outside of Jerusalem which was used as a landfill and repository for the burning of refuse. It is never once referred to as a postmortem home of lost souls. Open the Bible for yourself, and you can have ‘sure knowledge’ of this. Despite the pronouncements from the pulpits, the text of the Holy Bible itself bears witness to this ‘certainty.’

Once again the ‘faithful’ are asked to ‘hope and pray.’ Two-thousand years of hope and prayer, and very little ‘sure knowledge.’ How much longer will the Catholic ‘faithful’ bow their heads in assent to this? How much longer is the Human race to live without sure knowledge of the true Meaning of Life, without certainty of the abiding Presence of the Divine in all things?

For the Truth is self-evident and available to all. There are no prerequisites for an encounter with the Divine. Open your ears, open your eyes, open your heart, open your mind — and you shall see the Light; you shall hear the Voice; you shall feel the Love; you shall know the Truth. This is what Jesus and the Hebrew prophets before him taught. How much longer shall the ‘faithful’ ignore the Masters they so highly revere?

The judgment is ours: Shall we live as the tormented offal of civilization, or as blissful citizens of a truly egalitarian, Paradisiacal planet? For the Bible itself never says anything at all about our mortal life being a payment of dues for gaining admittance into a Kingdom beyond. Like all other Holy Books, it speaks only of how we may best live Life to the fullest in this World, while we live, here and now.


In the Words of the AYAH:
There is no Heaven, and no Hell, apart from life on Earth.
There is no Heaven but the pleasures you enjoy on Earth;
there is no Hell aside from the struggles you sorrow over on Earth.


+BLESSED BE+
+LET NOW BE ALWAYS+

AYAH ASHER AYAH. EIMI EIMI.

1.
I AM God, the ONE Whom all of you seek, knowingly or unknowingly, under a thousand different names and through a thousand different paths.
Know therefore that there is no God but Me.
Know therefore also that I do not exist in any way apart from you –for I AM the bottomless Manna of your own existence, the Life that is living you!


2.
All Creation is the Temple of the Presence. All the Earth is My Shrine and My Holy of Holies.
The entire Cosmos is My manifestation and revelation.
Everywhere is the habitation of the Divine; there is nowhere where I AM not.


3.
The material Universe in which you live is the flesh and blood of My Body.
Matter is thus to be enjoyed and reverenced as the foremost blessing of the One True God.
Do not impoverish the Senses or the Soul; do not hide yourself away from the pleasures prepared for all by the Creator. Prize all things rightly, enjoy all things to their utmost; do not in any way condemn this World, for you are born to enjoy it to the full!


4.
Existence is meant for joy.
Joy is the right of all. Everyone has an irrepressible right to follow his or her desires and enjoy to the fullest the life that he or she is given.
Let no one be denied the rightful honor and reverence due a blessed incarnation of the Living God.


5.
I have no chosen people; all men and women are My own sons and daughters, children deserving of equal rights and equal inheritance.
Each and every man and woman is an imaged likeness of the Everlasting Light, priests and priestesses of the Most High --and every sheltering abode is the Temple and Tabernacle of the One True God.


6.
You were not born to suffer; you were born simply to live, and to live simply and freely.
Eating, drinking, playing, making love --these are representative of no fault or weakness in you at all.
Do not impoverish the Senses or the Soul; do not hide yourself away from the pleasures prepared for all by the Creator. But be true to yourselves, and do not in any way deny yourselves the very things that make you so supremely and divinely Human.


7.
Every day to Me is Sabbath; every deed an act of reverence and a sacrament of celebration; every hour is ceremoniously holy.
Each and every deed undertaken by men and women is sacred to Me, no matter what day or hour their work is done.
Rejoice, rejoice in the wonder and miracle of Who and What you are; let each and every day be a cause for celebration among you.


8.
There shall be no Last Days, no final End of Time, no apocalypse that will ever rattle the Earth down to its rocky foundation.
There is no Heaven, and no Hell, apart from life on Earth.
There is no Heaven but the pleasures you enjoy on Earth; there is no Hell aside from the struggles you sorrow over on Earth.


9.
The goal of life is Enlightenment, the inner and outer revelation of one’s own inherent Divinity-- not riches or rewards, not prestige or power.
True religion is consciousness of your own true infinite nature— it does not consist of being told what to do; it consists of being daily reminded of Who and What you are.


10.
You are indeed of this World: so enjoy it to the full in your rightful role as its stewards and caretakers.
Open your eyes, open your mind, open your heart—and you open the way unto Paradise.
Live your lives in such a way that Life Eternal may be lived even Here and Now!

JOY

There is only one religion in the world, and that is to be joyous -- to have joy in everything that you do.

The heavenly rewards of the joyous are right here and now before us, as are the pains and sufferings of the sorrowful. Joy is the only virtue in life; and being sorrowful is the only vice, the only sin. There can be no waiting for a better (or worse) life in any supposed future hereafter-- the bliss of heaven and the sting of hell are here and now, or else they do not exist at all. Have joy in life, and the joys of life will seek you out; but be sorrowful and you will find only suffering, no matter where you look. And if you cannot enjoy, then what is this life for? Surely not for struggle and turmoil. Only a voracious demon would have created such a world. And if you believe in a beneficent Creator, a good God, then surely it follows that you must also believe in a world blessed by the joy of His continuous and ubiquitous Presence. And if God is everywhere, and everywhere to be found -- then what is there to be so sorrowful over?

This sorrow, so common to the hearts and minds of the unenlightened, stems from an inability to see the world for what it is, an incapacity to find meaning in the apparent chaos of the created Universe, an outright failure to truly know themselves for who and what they really are. But the panacea for all this is simple-- so simple it is often easily overlooked or outright denied, so simple that it often defies all of our cultural, religious and personal beliefs. There are so many people, so many sorrowful people, who simply cannot enjoy even the most simple and common and downright ordinary things in life-- a beautiful sunset or sunrise, a magnificent work of art, intelligent conversation, loving and being in love. So they look elsewhere for God-- outside of the life of the world, outside of their own lives. They believe that joy is futile, even wasteful; and so they miss how immediately present the Divine Life is in their very own lives. They refuse to believe that life has any meaning at all; and so they refuse themselves the most apparent proof of life’s meaning, and the most obvious proof for the existence of God.

For God enjoys all things-- what else were all these things created for?-- and not simply for His own ineffable amusement. God deeply enjoys the play of sun, moon, and earth; the imaginative handiwork of our hands; the eloquent speech of our mouths; above all, the love of our hearts, minds, and bodies. But God cannot partake in the joy of even these most common aspects of life, unless we choose to allow ourselves the God-given right to enjoy them. It is through us, and through us alone, that God enjoys the joys of living, the delights of life, the true blessedness of His own Creation.

So look at life, look at the world as it is; look closely, and you will see God-- playing, loving, and delighting in the very midst of His own created Being. It takes but a single glimpse into the true nature of Reality -- and by Reality we mean both the spiritual fabric of the created material world, as well as the enduring Selfhood that remains forever untouched and aloof from our own personal psychologies and physiologies-- to dispel the illusions of the sorrowful man’s clouded and ignorant worldview. But a single glimpse … and our hearts and minds are forever free of pain and sorrow. But a single glimpse … and our entire being is permanently opened to a heavenly flood of blissful joy. But few know where to look; and it is very difficult to convince most men and women-- especially ‘religious’ men and women-- that the vision of God is already so near to their very own eyes.

God is Life itself; and to be truly religious is to enjoy life. To be truly religious is to deeply inhale the fragrance of life; to look upon even the most common events of our day to day living with an air of deep gratitude and reverence; to take in all the sights and sounds of the world, looking and listening acutely for the hidden pattern and harmony that is sure to present itself. God is the total material-spiritual Unity of Life. Divinity is not a static entity existing ‘somewhere out there;’ it is a dynamic phenomenon streaming and flowing through everything, everywhere, always. God is not hiding ‘somewhere,’ waiting for you to find Him. God is right here and now living Life to the full-- and enjoying every moment of it deeply. It is not that you have to ‘find God’ -- God is at all times and in all places actively seeking you out! But so long as you remain sorrowful, despondent, burdened with pains and sorrows, He cannot find you. You must open up the temple of your heart and mind, you have to open up the doors of your senses-- only then can the Spirit truly blow through you, and enliven you, and reveal your own Godhood to you. When the pain has disappeared, and you find yourself dancing -- then God has happened to you. When your tears have dried up, and you find yourself singing-- then God has entered you, and become you, and sings through you.

Have joy, and you will be deeply religious-- for joy is ultimate goal of all religion.

Thrid Time's the Charm

When first I looked,
I saw the Temple.
But I did not see the God
of the Temple anywhere.

The second time I looked,
I saw both the perfumed Temple
and the God enshrined within.

The third time I looked,
I saw God--
but the Temple itself
was nowhere to be found!

ONE and ONLY ONE

On Saturday October 7, 2006, between eight and nine’o’clock in the evening, the most overwhelming mystical experience of my life came to miraculous fruition. It was wholly unbelievable, yet immediately sensible and dramatically clear; it was awe-inspiring, even frightening for a few brief moments, yet most assuredly lucid and wholly unforgettable. And what it is even more miraculous is that I was not alone; the mysterium tremendum was thrust upon both myself and the love of my life simultaneously-- in fact, it was our intimate togetherness that afforded us this rare glimpse into the innermost Secret surrounding the Mystery of Who and What we really are.

We were encamped that incomparable evening at a psy-trance festival in Black River Falls, Wisconsin. Having retired for the moment in our small two-person tent, we found ourselves inexplicably kneeling before one another with our arms upraised, the palm of our hands pressed close together, gazing intently into one another’s smiling eyes. Barely a minute passed before the Unreal made Its first ripple felt between us: for the briefest moment I beheld a third eye between her brows; and then her three eyes, glistening in the near darkness, spiraled rapidly into a winding galaxy of kaleidoscopic eyeballs that threatened to fill and overflow my entire range of vision.

A single thought flashed through my mind swift as lightning: that each of these eyes was representative of a life she had lived previously, or had yet to live. I recoiled in shock and surprise, as did she, both whispering “Oh my God!” and gasping for breath. We smiled at one another; I took a few more deep breaths and tried to steady myself, letting go of as much fear and shock as I was able. We resumed the same posture straightaway, and I told myself to remain calm and let the vision unfold and take her and me where it would.

The spiraling galaxy of smiling eyes did not return, however; instead, we both watched in awe and astonishment as the tent around us drastically changed perspective, becoming somehow diminutive and miniature, our heads ballooning to enormous proportions and filling the tent to its tapered top. What was left of our bodies and limbs took on the appearance of slender filaments hung lazily beneath our bulbous skulls. Our eyes grew huge in watchful apprehension, our joyous smiles widening in loving reassurance.

Once more I recoiled, overwhelmed and breathless. We briefly exchanged a fragmented chain of questions and answers, verifying that each of us was beholding the same miraculous wonderment unfolding. Then we once again reassumed the same posture and braced ourselves for the full revealing of this incomparable vision.

The tent around us took on a diminutive, shrunken perspective as before, our heads inflating to enormous, iconic proportions. I took one more deep breath … and, as I exhaled, the full onrush of the Mystery overtook us.

I watched in God-intoxicated awe as the face of my beloved began quite suddenly to morph continuously in a lightning-swift succession of transmutations and transfigurations. I beheld all races, all nationalities, all cultures, all times and places, all ages of incomparably beautiful deific Womanhood flash before my eyes: all colors of skin, all types of cultural branding and tribal marking—even Cro-Magnon and Neanderthal Womanhood was represented, all appearing just as beautiful and desirable as the tastes of our modern sensibilities. Then a new iteration began – her eyes began to change shape and size, sometimes filled wholly with a solid color such as deepest crimson, or luminescent gold, sometimes joined with a third or even fourth eye. Her skin tone began to transmogrify into colors never seen before on Earth … and I began to understand that I was now beholding lifetimes lived on other worlds, circling other stars, lifetimes spent living and loving and dying in distant reaches of interstellar Space.

Awe-struck as never before in our lives, we were both gasping for breath—but all fear had been set aside, and the initial shock and surprise began to give way to heartfelt understanding, recognition, and acceptance. It quickly became manifestly clear to the both of us that we were being blessed with the beholding of the innumerably many incarnations we had lived or have yet to live, the infinitely many lifetimes we had known and loved, and will know and love one another.

Aeons upon aeons we have lived, knowing and loving one another most intimately; in every span of history we have been together present; in even the furthest reaches of inhabited Space and Time we have been, will be, and are most assuredly and intimately together—always us two, always together, and always as one.


But who exactly is it, who exactly are we, who have been living these lives? If the vast Universe is itself a Supreme Being; if Matter is indeed the Cosmic Body of the living Godhead; if Spirit is originally and ultimately and always One, and if the infinitely many incarnations of all that lives are, in fact, tributaries streaming outward from a Single Central Source – then how indeed can there be any or me? Who exactly are We Who are living these innumerably many lives, these infinitely many lifetimes spent living and loving and dying together in every point across the vast reaches of interstellar Space and in every moment of past, present, and future Time?

Spirit is One, no matter where it blows; and the phenomenal material Universe is a single Body. Each and every point in Space and moment in Time is singularly inspirited and inspired by the Living Light that abides at innermost heart of each and every atom. God is the breath of Life that lives in each every one of us; and God also is the stardust and sunlight that clothes us one and all. God is both the material Substance as well as the spiritual Essence of Who and What we are—and this Substance and Essence are One. It is One Soul that lives and breathes in each of us; the phenomenal Universe of living Matter is the One Body that we all of us share. And this Body and Soul are also One.

We are as windows through which the Living Light of the Godhead shines: no matter how dim or bright, it is a singular Light that emanates through each and every one of us. And we are this Light also: our very bodies are artifacts of starlight condensed and rarefied into inimitably beautiful icons of mortal clay; our very souls are sparkling embers kindled of the One Light that is both the beginning and end of all Creation, radiant beams of a single Sun. We are God gazing most intently and intimately upon the works of Our very own Hands, immersed all in all in very pageantry We have created for Our own habitation. We are God living every life imaginable; performing every feat that can be dreamed; in all places and at all times inventing, discovering, and re-creating the Universe anew. We are God incarnate in an innumerable number of manifestations; always and everywhere loving Who and What we are, and sharing that everlasting Love by the only means possible— by splintering Ourself into an inexhaustible number of lovers, born again and again to delight in the Love that unifies Us, the unifying Oneness that is both the substance and essence of Who and What We really are.


Like all conscious beings, these twin incarnations called her and I are skylights through which the Light of the Beginning shines outward, even unto the end of Creation; casements opening inward upon the inner sanctum of the Living Godhead. What transpired that fateful evening was that we were each allowed a clear glimpse through one another’s window, an unambiguously lucid vision of the vast panorama of Life that the God that We Are is living in every point in Space and every moment in Time. We rediscovered, in this lifetime, the true cosmic continuity underlying our roles as lover and beloved in this tragicomic odyssey we call the World’s pageantry. Above all, we learned the ultimate truth and hidden meaning of a couplet she herself had written months before we met once more in this lifetime, unknowingly anticipating our rediscovery of God within one another:

You are Me and I am You;
We are One pretending Two!

One, and Only One. That is Who and What her and I really are. And you also.

A NEW DECALOGUE

(1)

I AM GOD.
There is no God except ME,
the LIVING LIGHT that creates and sustains,
shelters and embraces you, one and all--
the ONE Whom all of you seek,
knowingly or unknowingly,
under a thousand different names
and through a thousand different paths.

I AM the Breath in every mouth,
the Light in every eye.
I AM the Root of all that has been,
the Leaf of all that is,
and the Flower of all that is yet to be.
--All things are in ME
and I AM in all things.

I punish no one, and ask sacrifice of none--
for I AM the GOD who gives all and everything freely.

I live so that you may live.
My joy is your joy.
Delight in ME and I shall delight in you!


(2)

All the Earth is My Shrine
and My Holy of Holies.
The entire Cosmos is
My manifestation and revelation.
Everywhere is the habitation of the Divine;
there is nowhere where I AM not.

Every graven image, any likeness
of anything in the Heavens or on Earth
or in the Waters under the Earth
is a but showing forth and a revealing
of My many-faceted Being,
an artifact honoring
My million-bodied Presence here among you.

What need have I to be jealous
of the skilled artistry employed
in reverence and praise of ME
and the Divine Life I AM living
through each and every one of you?

Do not fall prey to the folly
of denigrating the material World
in your quests for spiritual exaltation--
for the World of Matter is just as holy
and sacred as the World of Spirit.
Matter is truly a marvel and a miracle;
it is the outer mantle of My indwelling Spirit,
Living Light condensed into a sensible panorama
of joy and rejoicing.


(3)

ENDLESS NAMELESS is My Name--
the Unborn, Uncreated, Unbegotten
ONE.

Call ME GOD or GODDESS;
call ME any Name you will.
For I have an infinite number of Holy Names;
and any Name you wish to ascribe
to any aspect of Deity
ultimately refers to one facet or another
of My own inexhaustible Being.

Let any man or woman call upon Me
any hour of the day or night
by whatsoever Name they choose,
and I will most assuredly appear unto them.
For there is nowhere where I AM not.

Know therefore that there is no God but ME.
Know therefore also that I do not exist
in any way apart from you –
for I AM the bottomless Manna
of your own existence,
the LIFE that is living you!


(4)

Every day to ME is Sabbath;
every deed an act of reverence
and a sacrament of celebration;
every hour is ceremoniously holy.
Each and every deed undertaken by men and women
is sacred to ME, no matter what day
or hour their work is done.

Let no one among you labor unduly or unjustly.
The greatest work that any can undertake
is to awaken their fellow men and women
to the true dignity of being Human,
and the rightful enjoyment of the World
that is their very birthright.

The goal of life is Enlightenment,
the inner and outer revelation
of your own inherent Divinity--
not riches or rewards,
not prestige or power.
-- So do not live as brutish slaves,
but rather as free spirits and mortal immortals--
as very gods at play
among the fields of the earth
and the vastness of the stars!


(5)

Each and every man and woman
is an imaged likeness of the Everlasting Light,
priests and priestesses of the Most High;
--and every sheltering abode is
the Temple and Tabernacle of the One True God.

Seek no other God than the God that is within you;
for the revelation revealed by your own inner Light
is the only true illumination.
So rejoice, rejoice in the wonder and miracle
of Who and What you are;
let each and every day be
a cause for celebration among you.

Truly, I tell you --
existence is pure joy!
As bodies in the World,
as beings abounding in My Creation,
you are of One Being, One Body,
and One Spirit with ME;
—your experience of the World
is nothing more or less than
My experience of Myself.
Thus, let no one dissuade you from rejoicing
in the enjoyment of Who and What you are--
for this is your birthright
and your true likeness to God.


(6)

Let no man or woman be put to death
on account of the color of their skin,
their place of birth,
the thoughts of their minds,
the words of their mouths,
or the understanding of their hearts.

Everyone has an irrepressible right
to follow his or her desires
and enjoy to the fullest the life
that he or she is given.
Let no one be denied the rightful honor and reverence
due a blessed incarnation of the Living God.


(7)

The material Universe in which you live
is the flesh of My Person
and the blood of My Body.
The physical Cosmos is
a living Temple of crystalline Light,
a Supreme Being born of
the brick and mortar of pure Spirit.

Veiled in Creation, I AM thereby revealed --
gaze longingly into the Sun and there you will find ME;
split the atom and there I AM.

You are not souls ensnared and entrapped in bodies,
but living Matter, embodied Spirit.
The Soul is not an exile, a prisoner, or a captive;
the Body is its one true rightful temple and abode.

So do not in any way impoverish the Senses or the Soul;
do not hide yourself away from the pleasures
prepared for all by the Creator.
Prize all things rightly,
enjoy all things to their utmost;
do not in any way condemn this World,
for you are born to enjoy it to the full!

—You are indeed of this World:
so enjoy it to the full
in your rightful role
as its stewards and caretakers.
For in enjoying the World rightly,
you awaken and invite the Spirit within
to its full and proper expression.


(8)

Let covetousness be obsolete among you;
let sustenance and shelter be
the common inheritance of everyone;
let both poverty and luxury be equally abhorred by all.
Do not build empires --
for the Earth is one land, a single country,
the Kingdom of Heaven itself.

You were not born to suffer;
you were born simply to live,
and to live simply and freely.

Eating, drinking, playing, making love --
these are representative of no fault
or weakness in you at all.
Never have I taught you
to be ashamed of your own desires,
or to seek pleasure only in secret.
Joy of living, delight of Life,
is your mortal portion of My immortal Godhead;
and to satisfy your supremely natural inclinations
is truly to satisfy the Divine likeness
in which you were originally imaged.

-- So be true to yourselves,
and do not in any way deny yourselves
the very things that make you
so supremely and divinely Human!


(9)

I have no chosen people;
all men and women are My own
sons and daughters, children
deserving of equal rights and equal inheritance.

There is no one true religion;
all spiritual paths are ways and means unto ME.
The Holy Spirit can no more
be contained by one religion
than the whole Ocean can be enclosed
in a single bottle.
My Spirit blows where it wills
through all cultures and all traditions
wherever reverence and love of Life are found.

I have no holy scripture;
every book is a Holy Book.
There has never been a revelation from on high,
no divine disclosure to any chosen ears and eyes.
I have no need to reveal Myself –
for each and every man, woman, and child
may easily contemplate ME in the beauty
and wonder of the natural World
as well as in the interior shrine of their innermost hearts.

So do not wait for ME to reveal Myself to you,
but rather embark upon the task
of revealing yourselves to ME!
For true religion is consciousness
of your own true infinite nature --
it does not consist of being told what to do;
it consists of being daily reminded
of Who and What you are.


(10)

There shall be no Last Days,
no final End of Time,
no apocalypse that will ever rattle the Earth
down to its rocky foundation.

There is no Heaven, and no Hell,
apart from life on Earth.
There is no Heaven but the pleasures
you enjoy on Earth;
there is no Hell aside from the struggles
you sorrow over on Earth.

Why take thought of the Hereafter,
when life on this very Earth is Paradise?
Let not your aim be to achieve Heaven after death,
but rather to feel the certainty
of the Presence of God in this life,
in the realm of the Here and Now.

Let your eyes be opened to see,
and your ears opened to hear,
and your hearts open to feel
what you are and what you have
in the present Here and Now.
-- For Heaven is not some far off abode
to which the dead retire,
but rather this very World,
after you have transformed it and yourselves.

Open your eyes, open your mind, open your heart --
and you open the way unto Paradise.
Live your lives in such a way
that Life Eternal may be lived even Here and Now!

Made in the Image of God

All of Creation is sacred;
for all bears within it
the impress of the One,
the image of God
present in all things.

In the life of the Stars
the same as Sea and Soil
abides a Heart
of immortal Diamond.

Who, then, dare deny
their own Divinity?

Go Fish

by Guy Spiro. Originally appeared in The Monthly Aspectarian, December 2004. Special thanks to The Girl of My Dreams for introducing me to this ...

There is the old saying: Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day, teach him to fish and you feed him for a lifetime. But there is a third, deeper level. Truly understand how fish, as well as everything else in the world, is manifested and you tap into the inexhaustible source of fish and feed the world.

I’ve written before that the belief in a limited world is the worst form of materialism. It is easy, however, to understand how this belief becomes so prevalent. When one sees the world in a strictly physical sense, then it logically follows that there is only so much of any one commodity. When it is used up, there is no more of it. Spend all of your money and you have no more to spend. If the physical is the ultimate reality, then there is a finite supply of all that is good and necessary for life. Fortunately, the physical is not the ultimate reality, but is, in fact, the least that is real.

Now, I am not saying that we should waste the world’s visible resources, continue to burn fossil fuel or pollute the environment in any way. Good stewardship requires that we find more intelligent means of providing the comforts of life. Our problem is that we have over-identified with the physical and forgotten its source. The physical world is the result of our limited vision. It is a dream that we have come to see as real. We believe that we are bound by its laws rather than it being formed by our consciousness.

The source of all is the One. The stuff of the universe is nothing more than variations of the emanations of the One. We are as lenses through which the energy of the One moves into a temporary formation of matter. As such, we have the ability to shape the material world. But we, by and large, have it backward. We see the world as our source and impress upon our consciousness what the world presents, rather than knowing that the source flows through us and our consciousness impresses conditions on the world.

As we learn and grow in consciousness, we begin to access the God part of ourselves. We identify with our higher self and come into contact with the source of all. We then find that there is no limit to the source of anything. By, in effect, pulling the energy down instead of up, or out of the world, we find that anything can be healed, expanded, increased or completed. Jesus is reported to have used this knowledge with the miracle of the loaves and the fishes. We can use it for anything. Go fish.

Every Step of the Way

Each and every step you have taken in your whole life has led you to this present Moment. Here and Now is the destination you have been traveling to your entire life.

You have been walking and running, swimming and climbing for so many years, often moving in oft-repeated circles— and it has all led you to your inevitable meeting with the present Here and Now.

And the same can be said of tomorrow, the following year, decades from now. You are in all places and at all times perpetually arriving at the one and only destination the circumambulating pathway of your life is continually leading you to— the inexhaustible wonders of the present Here and Now.