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On planet earth we
take for granted so much that is not in agreement with
universal law.
For
example, there are two very big misconceptions which
especially lead mankind down the road to misery.
The first
of these is that a perfect God exists somewhere in the
sky, a perfected being or awareness that knows
everything. The idea is that God has a perfect blueprint
for the universe, and that human beings are on earth
struggling to learn lessons in order to attain the
perfected state of God.
The second
misconception stems from the first: a source of evil or
danger exists, and it might get you, too. This idea
leads us to carefully watch our fellow man and the world
around us, inspecting all actions everywhere for any
that are threatening, for who knows when someone or some
group somewhere might engage in activities or formulate
policies which will lead to our eventual harm or
destruction. Acceptance of this idea leads inevitably to
the idea that it is necessary to protect ourselves from
the danger.
In other
words, in order to feel good, we first have to examine
the bad things and get rid of them. Here we have the
modus operandi of politics, where competing groups
advocate laws banning or regulating unwanted conduct.
In the
words of President Bush, we have to “fight for freedom.”
We have to be on the alert for terrorists and other
undesirables. We need a massive Department of Homeland
Security (which strangely resembles the Interior
Ministry in the old communist Russia) to shield us from
terrorism. We need more and more laws restricting
constitutionally guaranteed freedoms in order to catch
the terrorists. We need troops all over the world on the
lookout for baddies who might attack us. Funny, we never
heard of Islamic terrorists in the United States until
we sent troops to occupy Arab soil. Until we supported
the Afghani fundamentalists in their war against the
Soviet Union. Until we supported the Iraqi’s in the
Iran– Iraq war. Funny how that works. What you resist
persists.
What is
God? How do we know God? In Western religions, God is
usually presented as a Supreme Being who created
everything in the universe. If that is so, then
everything in the universe is a little piece of God. So
let's look at God as everything there is.
If God has
a completed blueprint for the universe, then God
himself/herself must be complete. If God is complete,
he/she is finished, done, over with. There is nothing
left to do! In other words, when the game is over, the
lights are turned off, people go home and the stadium
sits there, still, empty and dark.
However,
even cursory observation of our world shows that
everything we perceive is in a constant state of change.
So God himself/herself must also be changing.
We know
that God is eternal. Eternal means 'timeless.' In these
essays we have postulated consciousness as a static, a
pure potential with no mass and no moving parts.
Consciousness then, by definition, does not physically
exist. The creative and animating principle transcends
existence, is the Source of existence. Therefore, we can
say that consciousness itself is already perfect in the
sense that whatever it creates is a beautiful part of
Itself. However, a physical universe must by definition
be in motion. The atomic model of matter and energy
shows us that an atom is composed of moving particles.
Observation tells us that although events and phenomena
may appear to be exactly similar, nothing ever happens
the same way twice. The universe is in a constant state
of change, and is either evolving, or de-volving.
Nothing ever stays the same.
Eternal-ness and complete-ness are incompatible
conditions. Eternal is bound inextricably with time,
because time is a condition that results from the motion
of objects in space. Therefore, eternal, by definition,
implies a connection with the physical universe of
matter and energy. Consciousness, being time-less, is
transcendent of time. Therefore, we must separate the
concepts of completeness and eternalness. That which is
complete cannot be eternal, and so we have to say again
that God must be evolving and changing.
We must
conclude, then, that God cannot be judging our actions
according to some finished blueprint, since that
blueprint must continually be evolving!
Let us
establish, then, that God has not instituted a set of
higher rules or maxims that we must follow. We will say
that God is perfect exactly and always where God is, at
any time. God, in other words, is not so petty as to
require certain conduct in humans. Such pettiness is a
human weakness! If this is so, then all thought and
conduct are allowed by God. All thought, all conduct, is
sanctioned.
If that is
so, then all beings must have free will, because God
allows all thought and conduct. Observation of events
confirms this. No matter how many moralists,
politicians, or religious leaders object, there are,
every minute, somewhere on planet earth, actions of the
most unspeakable depravity right along with loving and
selfless acts of the utmost beauty. This scenario forms
the contrast in which we are all immersed. The
contrasting ocean of thought and behavior is what
provides the variety, the buffet, of life, from which we
can examine and choose our own desires, our own thought
and action.
It is
magnificent, and perfectly balanced, for only those
thoughts and actions that match up to each other are
allowed to come together. This property of the universe
is called the Law of Attraction. More on this in a bit.
Now lets
talk about the second big misconception, which is, that
God or the devil or some other force or person or group
can impose itself into our lives and do us harm. This
idea single-handedly causes more grief and misery than
any other concept in the mass consciousness of mankind.
We look
around the world and see scarcity, conflict and war
reported every day in the news, and become frightened
that it could spill over into our lives as well. But
this can never happen unless attention is consciously
focused upon it. It is solely and only attention to the
bad stuff that brings it into your life, because your
thoughts and beliefs precisely orchestrate your
experiences. If you do not believe this, try changing
thoughts, beliefs and feelings about a person you are
having difficulty with. If you can truly change your
ideas about that person, you will find him or her
behaving towards you in a much more acceptable manner.
That is the property of the Law of Attraction, which
matches up thoughts and feelings, and so only those
things which are like each other are allowed to come
together.
Lets look
at this a little bit. Would you say this universe is
based upon attraction, or rejection? If the universe
were based on rejection or opposition, then by
definition nothing could come together at all. There
could be no universe at all, for there could be no
matter or energy, and so no cars, flowers, planets,
galaxies, beer bottles, no anything! The universe is
attraction based. That means, as we said above, that
like things come together. The Law of Attraction says
:'like attracts like'. It's why you hang around with
people you like, and not people you hate! That's how
crystals, snowflakes, trees, and all life is formed.
Things that have an affinity for each other like to come
together.
So if like
things attract other like things, then how do we get
different things? How do we get trees and bees and rocks
and oceans and all of the variety we see in our
universe?
The variety
comes about because of the decision to be different. Now
this might seem like a weird statement, but it isn't if
you realize that all things are conscious on some level.
That consciousness is not observable by human beings,
but it is there nevertheless. That is how the crystal
knows how to form itself into a lattice structure. That
is how the snowflake knows how to form its infinitely
varied patterns based upon the hexagon. That is how the
cell knows how to divide into itself and replicate
itself. You see, science does a good job in describing
the PROCESS of the way things work, but science has no
explanation whatsoever for HOW or WHY this is so. For
instance, what supplies the energy for the cell to
divide? What provides the knowledge of how to do this?
The answer is consciousness. Some people call this God
consciousness, universal consciousness, life force,
prana, chi, it has been given many names by many
different cultures throughout the history of our planet.
But all of these cultures knew about life force and the
idea that consciousness, on a broader level, created the
universe. Why did universal consciousness, or God, or
whatever you want to call it, create the universe? To
play around in it! To have fun! That answer will be
rejected by those who think there is a divine plan for
everything, or who think that God is complete and knows
exactly what we all should be doing, and where we all
should be going. But remember, God is eternal, and so
must be constantly growing, expanding, and becoming
more. So there can be no 'serious' intent or purpose for
creation. It HAS to be fun!
Why would
God go through the trouble of creating the infinite
vastness of the universe, and design it for misery?
That’s crazy! We know God is not crazy, so lets give God
a little credit. If you were God, wouldn't you try to
create a universe that felt as wonderful as you
possibly could make it? Would you create an eternal
existence that felt rotten all the time? Or an eternal
existence in which there was a preordained, known
outcome, where we all just went through the same
motions over and over again? Of course not! So lets
assume that God is a rational and reasonable creator,
and give God the intelligence to know how to create a
universe with the inherent, default property that it
feels good to experience in it.
We know
that ‘like attracts like,’ and we’ve reasoned that the
default condition of the universe is positive, as
positive and blissful as the Creator could possibly make
it. Now we are living in an attraction based universe,
based upon free will, which inherently feels good to
live in.
So if this
is true, then why do so many people feel bad? Why is
there so much misery and poverty and conflict?
Perhaps
because that is what some of us have decided to
experience! It is impossible to know (without a big
increase in our level of consciousness) what other
people are thinking and feeling. So it's not possible
for an individual to truly know another's purpose in
doing the things they do.
In our
vibrational model of the universe, existence comes forth
from a static potential, a universal field of
consciousness. In this model, thoughts are the most
basic quanta of existence. Your thoughts and feelings
are not irrelevant; on the contrary, they draw to you
the people, objects and situations of your experiences.
In every moment, your thoughts and feelings send out a
vibrational broadcast signal to the universe.
But how
does the universe know how to respond?
The
universe responds to vibrational content. It is
impossible to be a match to wellness by thinking
constantly about sickness, for example. The universe is
based upon the property of 'like attracts like', so
attention to something you don't like or don't want will
begin to bring it to you. No matter what others are
doing out there, nothing can occur in your experience
unless you invite it in, so to speak, by your attention
to it. This is not obvious, otherwise it would be more
generally known. You can prove that to yourself by
simply changing your thoughts and feelings about a
person, or an area of life, and watch what happens. It
is magic! How purely you resonate to the words you speak
will determine how fast you will notice the changes.
For
instance, you may be tired of fighting with your mother
in law, so you decide to change your attitude about her.
You can do this in two ways: you can really, deep
inside, feel that she is a bitch, but that you will be
nice to her anyway. You might notice a few positive
changes if you go along in this manner, but more than
likely nothing too much different will occur in your
relationship. The universe is not responding to your
words, but to your the content of your thoughts and
feelings, which really haven't changed all that much.
If you REALLY want to change your relationship with
your mother in law, you have to actually find positive
aspects about her, and concentrate on those. Now if your
mother in law is like my friend Mark's, that will be
really hard to do! But remember that the inherent nature
of the universe is positive. This means that the
inherent nature of every person is also positive. There
are, of course, miserable people who work very hard to
cover up anything good in their character. But no one
can completely hide, even from themselves, their divine
nature. So by looking for those minuscule positive
aspects, you will draw those out in mother in law. Now
that doesn't mean mother in law is all of a sudden going
to turn into a saint because you are looking at her a
little differently. But it does mean that when she
interacts with YOU, she will behave more positively.
Good feelings are contagious, have you noticed? That's
because we live in an attraction based universe.
Attraction is affinity and love, and affinity is the
characteristic emotion of native–state consciousness.
How hard is it to actually change your attitude? Well,
that depends on how firmly established it is. But you
can judge your progress by observing how mother in law
reacts to you. If there is no change, then you really
haven’t fundamentally altered your vibration. You can
tell how you really feel about anything; you just have
to be honest with yourself. Anyway, you're stuck with
the old battle–axe, you might as well make the best of
it! But don’t change your attitude for her; do it for
you. When you feel better about mother in law, you’ll
feel better about yourself as well. That’s a promise.
The Law Of
Attraction is a very powerful and fundamental universal
principle, but it is based on common sense. It isn't
some airy-fairy-abstruse metaphysical concept. It is the
foundational bedrock of the entire universe! You don't
have to experience ANYTHING you don't want, and you can
experience EVERYTHING you do want. In our vibrational
model, the universe is composed of an infinite field of
subtle energy. This energy field composes everything in
existence, including our own bodies. Ask yourself, how
does your body know how to breathe? When you go to
sleep, you don't die. What keeps the body breathing when
you're asleep? If you ask yourself this one simple, but
profound question, it will lead you inevitably to the
most astonishing conclusions. (Explanations such as,
"The body's autonomic function keeps physical systems
operating," don't really explain anything. Such
explanations are merely descriptive, assigning a label
to a phenomenon that no medical doctor or scientist
truly understands).
Acceptance
of the creative, non-physical principle of consciousness
allows us to see the guiding hand of well-being
everywhere. If you think about the planet rotating on
its axis every day, revolving in its orbit around the
sun every year, how the apple seed knows how to grow
into an apple tree and not a tomato, how the cell knows
how to divide into itself to form the human body -- how
the sun knows how to extract the energy from hydrogen to
bring life to our planet --- the well being goes on and
on and on. The forces that keep the universe working
(and our bodies breathing) are so powerful, so positive,
and so well ordered that in comparison anything bad we
observe on earth is about as significant as a pimple on
a pickle. (An observant person will note that most of
the bad stuff on our planet is created by human beings,
most of whom believe in a strange theory called the
biological basis for consciousness, or the "Man is Meat"
theory of existence.
This
confused theory denies mankind's inherent divinity,
separating ourselves from the rational conduct and
well–being that naturally comes with a connection to
Self and God).
The correct
understanding is that well–being is the order of the
day, and that in order to experience NOT well being, it
is necessary to work very hard at it. It is necessary to
focus constantly on thoughts and feelings that feel
rotten, in order to bring rotten things into your
experience. All of us have free will and can think and
feel and choose anything we like. So choose well–being.
Its a good
feeling to know that life is designed to be a positive
experience!
Lets look
at an example of how the Law of Attraction applies to
relationships. Lets say Barb is having trouble with Bob,
her boyfriend. Bob does annoying things like not call
her when he says he will, and when they go out to eat,
he chews very loudly. He isn't very handy either. When
Barb had a major toilet malfunction from the upstairs
bathroom, the drywall collapsed in the dining room
below. They had to call in a repairman and it cost a
small fortune to fix it.
Because
Barb is really into self improvement and considers
herself to be spiritual, she goes to the local
astrologer and gets a reading about her boyfriend, and
their relationship. The astrologer looks on her charts
and sees that her signs for the next 3 months show a lot
of trouble with persons of the opposite sex, and
advises Barb to be on her guard for some temperamental
male behavior. Now all Barb's thoughts and feelings are
aligned toward conflict with Bob, and so she begins to
interact with Bob in this way. Sure enough, within a few
weeks they get in several big fights and break up two
months later.
Bob
actually has several wonderful characteristics which
attracted Barb to him, but she has only been noticing
the 2 or 3 things about Bob that irritate her, and so
naturally, draws these forth from Bob when he interacts
with her. Do we say the astrologer was correct in her
predictions about Bob and Barb? Or do we say that Barb
created the whole thing? Its up to you I guess, but I
prefer explanations which place a conscious being at
cause over his or her life.
We reject
explanations that postulate evil forces, because these
forces don't exist in an attraction based, free will
universe where everything is connected in a positive
field of energy!
Life is a
self fulfilling prophecy. Like our example of Barb and
Bob, it was Barb's agreement with the astrologer which
placed her vibe in such a way as to promote conflict
with Bob. It wasn't the position of the planets, or
anything else outside of Barb. Barb has free will (as do
we all) to choose her own experiences. It just happened
that she decided to go into agreement with the
astrologer, and therefore created more conflict in her
relationship. The sad thing is that Barb may decide from
this experience that she is no good in relationships,
and so further compound her difficulty in dealing with
the opposite sex.
Lets look
at another example. Take Ralph, a guy who loves fast
cars. Ralph has saved up enough for a down payment on a
new sports car. He is really juiced to show off his
beautiful car. He gets to the dealer breathless with
anticipation and when he sees that beautiful machine he
thinks: 'man that thing looks so great. I hope nothing
ever happens to it.' He begins to get anxious about
scratches and dents, and idiots running into him. Anyone
who has ever bought a new car knows how Ralph is feeling
right now! Anyway, Ralph gets all his paperwork done and
is anxious to get out of there and get his car safely in
his own garage. He is driving down the street when Jim,
a hothead who just quit his job and got his last
paycheck, is headed off to the bar. Jim is really
feeling his oats and comes out of the parking lot
hell-bent-for-leather. He doesn't even see Ralph as he
jerks his rig out into oncoming traffic and turns right
in front of Ralph, putting a big dent in Ralph's brand
new machine.
Did Ralph
just have bad luck? Was there some evil force that
directed Jim to mess up Ralph's new car? If we accept
these explanations, we have to assume a universe where
either things just randomly happen, or where there is a
diabolical source of blackness that, like a boogeyman,
decides to mess us up. Neither of these explanations
make any sense. There aren't any boogeyman, that's for
sure! The universe is well ordered and so no random
events ever happen. Ralph was a perfect match to Jim,
and so they came together, exactly according to the
thoughts, beliefs and feelings uppermost in each of
them. Ralph was worried about his rig getting dented,
and Jim was in just the right mood to want to run into
somebody. BAM! a perfectly orchestrated co–incidental
event, with Ralph and Jim as both actors and directors.
What
appears to be a big boogeyman is just the guy behind the
curtain with a bunch of levers and buttons. That guy is
you.
Have fun
orchestrating your life!
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