P. 184-191
A part of the challenge here for me it is to know that I know. To acknowledge my knowing. To realize that we can know truth in many different ways. And the ways and methods we are working with through this text go beyond what can be proven or experienced by the five senses.
The truth that is being spoken and experienced here is not a knowing of small self, or the personality self, or the ego.
The comprehension of this is not done through the intellect. It cannot be done there. In fact, the intellect will tie it in a knot and a bow and spend the rest of her life trying to untangle it. The True Self knows, the small self thinks. And the comprehension of this teaching must be done in experience.
(eg. The difference between reading a book on swimming and actually jumping in the water)
Our experience of our divine nature continues to be limited in some ways by our preconceived notions ideas or beliefs and sometimes by our fears, conscious or not. I believe this is a powerful aspect of our learning we are continually challenged to go beyond our self-imposed limitations.
This is not to deny the senses or the intellect or information you get from them. What we are suggesting is not only can you see and learn beyond your senses, but that your senses also can be raised to a higher vibration.
A simple example might be those three-dimensional pictures that showed up a few years ago and how when you first look at them they just seem to be a maze of lines and colors. But when you let go of trying to see something else in there, when you allow your eyes to defocus, all of a sudden the picture emerged. The picture was always there. (Those of us who were enamored of control had a most difficult time with these. We were attempting to make our seeing happen by brute force.
Now the senses you hold have in many ways been limited by what they have been conceived of by others, and the True Self has access to information and experience that bypasses the systems of agreement that mankind has gotten used to. As we speak through Paul, we bypass his systems in order to meet you through the senses. You feel the energy or you hear the words. You comprehend the text through the eyes in your head or the braille that you feel beneath your fingers. You are still in exchange with what we are, even though the what we are exists outside of form, as you understand form.
We are being asked to hold different levels of awareness at the same time. This is not multitasking so much as it is awareness. It is like the Buddhist teaching “after enlightenment you still chop wood and carry water, but these acts (and all others) now become sacred, the simplest act becomes a blessing that raises the vibration all beings.
Here we go, friends. The work we will do now is to lift you beyond the comprehension that has limited you, the agreement to know reality in a limited way that was prescribed for you and attuned to by you each in collective agreement. What we are doing now is lifting you outside of the known to the level of expression where you may be seen and see as the Divine Self.
Now what does it mean to be seen as the Divine Self? It is not done in form, and the perception of the Divine Self— although it is inclusive of form, does not disregard form— exists beyond it and in it at the same time. So how you are perceived is in the field by the vibration that encounters all things as what it is. Underline the what. The vibration of the Divine Self in manifestation is collectively experienced as one realizes herself at this level. As you know yourself, you are known.
Because we are partly made up of “dense matter,” our physical bodies and the material world we have created, it is as if we are drawn to it like a magnet; we get caught up in it and we begin to think it is our only reality. Not only that, but we become trapped in using the same criteria for proof or knowing and attempt to apply those material methods to the immaterial world. Thinking that if I cannot see it, feel it touch it taste it or hear it, or feel it it does not exist. As we are called to higher planes of knowing, we do not reject or belittle our intellect or five senses, we simply realize they are tools for measurement and understanding in the material world.
From this we are being subtly encouraged to cultivate our “inner” knowing. That knowing that is reflected through the intuition. We could begin with something as simple as “knowing you are loved.” The mind wants to ask, “How do you know?” The intuition or deeper knowing only needs to realize “that I know.” Get the difference?
Each human being has the innate ability to experience the other worlds that are ever-present. But they have been veiled and aligned to in dense form, so your experience has been limited.
As mentioned above, we still “chop wood and carry water” but we carry with us a sense of the sacred in all we do.
Now an old claim is something that was decided by the self at one time that has been perpetuated in your experience. And the experiences you have had thus far in a life in all ways have been in support of your growth and learning. Alignment to the True Self does not take away your lessons if there are things you are required to learn. So don’t go into an analysis of what it means to be the Divine Self that would include “I don’t have to pay my taxes, or have a bad day, or a cold.” Do you understand this? That is the fancy of the small self, and it also is a symptom of a disgust with the lives you live in physical form that are actually blessings. Do you understand that?
Understand, dears, that if you still experience fear, you are not doing this wrong. You are having an encounter to support you in the release of the lie that would inhibit your expression. Do you understand this?
When we begin to realize that everything we encounter is the embodiment of a lesson our soul has already agreed to or contracted with to learn from, our working with the stuff of life becomes a little smoother.
What you will be in accord with is truth in all ways. And all that is in truth will then be available to you. Not just a current, a vibration, but all things that express themselves in truth, in love, will be made available in that current. So begin to expect the possibility of phenomena as part of the life you live, and do not be alarmed when the sky itself begins to smile down upon you. It knows who you are as well. The sky is in truth, because how could it not be?
Peace. Thank you
