Your awakening will allow you to interact fully with all of creation
08/01/2012 by John Smallman
We are all one – there is no separation. Your human perception
of individuality is caused by the severely limited state of
consciousness that you experience, and this makes it extremely difficult
for you to perceive very much at all. As individuals, you engage in
apparently separate disciplines, areas of interest, of study, of
entertainment, of activity, etc. which further emphasize your sense of
separation and hide from you the all-encompassing oneness that is your
original and eternal state of existence. Your awakening will remove
those severe limitations, allowing you to interact fully with all of
creation and to offer all your diverse skills and talents to enhance
God’s ongoing creative enterprise, in which all participate gloriously
and harmoniously.
Because of your presently limited state of consciousness, you have
only a very slight awareness of your skills and talents as you use them
to earn your living or to entertain yourselves, but you are all
extremely talented and creative beings, and this will become apparent
and will delight you when the illusion dissolves and you are once more
able to access the infinite knowledge of the divine realms. To fully
partner with God in your creative endeavors is, and always has been,
your destiny, and you are shortly to engage with it.
Your destiny is your natural state, the state in which God created
you as eternal beings always at one with Him. You have never left it;
it just seems that you have, and your present ongoing life
experience is a distraction – an extremely powerful and enticing one –
with which you engage continuously through your bodies and all their
senses. Yes, your bodies are powerful, distracting attention-grabbers,
and that includes your thought processes and emotions; and it is very
difficult for you to withdraw your focus from them for very long because
they always seem to have needs requiring your attention – food, drink,
exercise, sleep, entertainment, worry, competing, winning, etc.
Meditation, quiet relaxation, feeling the earth, the trees, enjoying
the beauty of a view or the sunset can help you reach a “non-ordinary”
state of consciousness, where the pressures of living in a body can be
greatly reduced to the extent that you can become momentarily unaware of
it. When that happens, you experience a sense of sublime peace. Most
of you have at some time had an experience like this, and you never
forget it. For some it is very intense, for others just an extremely
peaceful release from the stress of daily living, but it is unforgettable.
It is a veiled glimpse of Reality that you would love to experience
more frequently and easily, and yet it seems to elude you no matter how
hard you try to re-experience it. And of course the trick is not to
try, and that too is very difficult. Once experienced, you cannot help
yearning for it and looking for it whenever you think that you are close
to that inner place in which it occurred.
But of course a non-ordinary state of consciousness is really an
extremely ordinary state! It is just that because of the distractions
of the illusion it is very rarely experienced. The illusion is an
all-encompassing environment that demands your constant attention. The
thing is that you do not have to respond to those demands. It is incumbent on you to be aware of them, but then you must decide whether or not to comply with them. That is what free will is all about.
Far too frequently your ego succeeds in convincing you that as you
live in this world it would be foolish, even insane, not to cooperate
with it fully – you need to earn your living, sort out your
relationships, attend to your children, keep your body in good shape,
take out health insurance, not make yourself look a total idiot by
trying to be honest in a dishonest world – and its reasoning seems so
reasonable. But, deep within yourselves you sense that something about
this reasoning is seriously amiss — and you are correct.
Everyone experiences dissatisfaction with human existence, and yet you often reason that that is
the human condition. But that does not ease your dissatisfaction. You
may bury it as you actively work very hard at playing out the hand that
you have been dealt. Nevertheless, deep within you there is a sense of
anxiety, a sense that you are missing out on something, that there must
“please God!” be more to life than this endless struggle to survive.
Others do not seem to suffer from this angst, so you dare not discuss
it with anyone, and you just soldier on.
That inner yearning is your divine wake-up call. It is not a
psychotic threat to your sanity. But because you all experience life as
separated, individual, you cannot see how others feel, and you worry
that you are horribly different from all those basically normal people
you see all around you. And when you see someone trapped in some sort
of addiction, or homeless on the streets, it confirms for you that the
world is a very dangerous place and that you must conform or sink. So
you keep your angst to yourselves, as a closely guarded secret.
Yes, some of you may enter psychotherapy in the hope of achieving
some kind of relief, but you are also aware of people who have spent years
in therapy with no obviously beneficial results – they just keep
changing therapists – unless they are lucky enough to find someone who
is open to deeper discussions of their issues and who will look at them
from a spiritual standpoint.
So that angst, that dissatisfaction, is your intuition attempting to
make contact with you by distracting you from the distractions of the
illusion. It feels like an inner conflict between “shoulds,” as part of
you feels honor bound to do them and part of you wants freedom from
doing them. It is very confusing for you.
Keep reminding yourselves that these feelings are to encourage you to
spend time quietly, alone, without distractions (phone, TV, children,
spouses), when you make a point of not focusing on the anxieties and
worries of daily life (it can help to play some soothing music quietly
in the background), and just let go! Maybe you will weep, maybe you will laugh, or maybe nothing will apparently
occur, but by allowing yourself that time, and by thus honoring
yourself, even if only for five minutes during the day, you will
strengthen your self-esteem, your God-given right to be yourself (after
all, who else can you be?), and in those minutes your heart will open to
accept the constantly offered gift of God’s Love for you – and you will feel it as a moment of peace or of self-validation.
You owe yourself that personal, private space every day,
because it is where you can find the peace and the stillness you need to
strengthen your ability to hold the Light and allow it to burn ever
more brightly within you. You are all bright jewels, piercing through
the gloom and despondency of the illusion, and showing the way towards
awakening. This is your duty and your joy as the divine way-showers
that you are, and by making time for yourselves daily, you will
experience that joy and know you are on your path doing precisely what you incarnated to do.
Others may well try to dissuade you from offering love, compassion, and honesty indiscriminately in every situation. But you know, deep within yourselves, that this is your path, and that just by living it and demonstrating it you are changing the whole world!
With so very much love, Saul.
