BOOK OF TRUTH 10

P. 242-246

Kind of a wild ride this evening!

“So we are being told that we have to see all things in a different way and render the landscape that we have known as a false place?”

Our perceptions, and therefore our experiences are influenced by a multitude of factors. We all might be in the same place at the same time and yet our experience can be quite different from the person next to us. It is most likely important to recognize the especially as we communicate with one another. To realize the other person is probably perceiving and experiencing the situation differently from me.

For a good piece of this next section the guides explored the concept of time. The emphasis was on how we, as a race, have made an arbitrary measuring device such as a calendar into the truth. Clocks and calendars— 24 hours in a day 12 months in the year etc. have become so much a part of our lives that we do not even question them.

We are not suggesting that you throw your calendars and watches away, but to be aware that this system of time measurement is an arbitrary one. It might suit many of us but it is simply a system that was created by man.

If you can imagine right now that the moment that you sit in, the very moment you sit in, is in fact eternity and the eternal now that you stand in is always in present time, the idealization of achievement, things born in structure, begins to diminish.

We have all experienced circumstances in life when what we call time, has been suspended, speeded up, or slowed down. We can simply become so engrossed in what we are doing that time becomes either nonexistent or irrelevant. In instances such as this, we have released our created concept of time and literally allowed ourselves to be in timelessness.

Now we are not saying that time is not of value. But we are illustrating it as a collective agreement that you have all adhered to as law. As you align to the Divine as you, the what you are in form, you will not do so through the standard clock. You will not do so in obeyance to structure because these things that you know serve to compress your experience into codification for the purpose of utilizing a shared agreement. The manifested self, the one that knows itself in form, must then be transformed to a new potential that even the body in its divinity may be thought of as timeless or without time.

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Now Paul is in a rut here, attempting to dig himself out. “Well, I hear what they’re saying. I will have no part of it. We are not immortal. And if they are taking us there, I am going away.”

It has been suggested that Paul, as the scribe of this work, has also volunteered himself to speak out about our own doubts and fears.

I found myself responding to the quotation above in a very one-dimensional way. “I mean here is this person who has been living in close contact with these guides and their lessons and dictations and yet here he seems to be almost totally irrational.”

It was pointed out to me that Paul probably did not say this out loud or even think those thoughts directly in his mind, but that the guides were responding to some deep inner doubt or fear or unworthiness that was preventing Paul and the rest of us as well from accepting these truths on the deepest levels of our being.

“I know all of this is true, but I am not quite sure if I fully believe it or not.” If I fully believed it all then I would always be in touch with the truth that I am unique expression of Divine lLove. My fits and starts with forgetfulness are indications to me that I am not quite there yet. Not judgment simply awareness.

Our concept of time is certainly tied up with the concepts of growing old and dying. Here is a challenging aspect of our work. On one level we can look at death as simply being the letting go of the physical body and knowing the me that I Am still very much exists. As Ram Dass reflected on the passing of his guru, he did not feel a deep sense of sadness because he continued to sense his presence. He asked the question simply, “Where did he go?”

Now that seems to either deny or perhaps even put down our natural human feelings at the passing of a loved one. I am reminded of the story about the abbot of a Zen monastery who heard that his teacher had passed away. The Abbott made preparations to go to his master's funeral, and took a few chosen disciples with them. When you got to the burial place he knelt by his master’s grave and cried. His students were scandalized. They thought to themselves, “Here is our master, so detached, living in timelessness, and yet here is crying. And so they bravely questioned him and he answered very simply, “I am crying because I am sad.”

I am also calling to mind the shorted line in Christian scripture, “Jesus Wept” (at the death of his friend Lazarus).

The illusion of time supports death. But death, you see, is only comprehended at this level of reality. And as you assist the vibratory shift that is taking place on this plane and begin to render reality in its true nature through the alignment to truth that you perceive all things in, the death and the frame of death that you have all claimed is lifted again to the comprehension of the transition outside of the physical realm, which it only is.

So here we are beginning to confront one paradox after another and not necessarily getting the answers that the mind craves, but allowing ourselves to live more and more comfortably in the mystery of things.

Peace