BOOK OF TRUTH 14

p.271-277

Jumping ahead just a bit to bridge with the last lesson, #13. There is a quote on p. 289:

“As we have said many times, you do not become the Christ, the Divine Self, the True Self, the Infinite Self, whatever you wish to call it. The Christ becomes you, the Divine as you, the truth as you, love as you in broadcast and expression—and, in this text, we add in form.”

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“When the Divine Self witnesses something in fear that was created in fear, she has the purview, the jurisdiction, the amplitude, and the True Self that knows what is before her, to re-create or realign the vibrational form of the things she sees.”

We spent some time review this paragraph, since the wording seemed confusing.

Many spiritual authors make reference to an aspect of our spiritual nature or a quality of our spiritual nature which is often referred to as the Observer self or the Witness. the Witness or the Observer does just that. It does not judge or evaluate, and in some ways is associated with our Awareness.

The Observer can be aware of fear in another without having to be touched or identified with that fear. Through this awareness we can choose, in whatever ways possible, to raise the vibration of another beyond the vibration fear. Even though in our Observer we are aware that fear is an illusion, we can also realize that our brother or sister might be lost in that illusion. 

The best way I have of understanding this is imagining that a child that I love is fearful or afraid of something. I acknowledge the fear; I do not deny it nor do I simply brush it off as being an illusion; nor do I judge him/her for being afraid.  Obviously none of those responses would be very helpful to the one I am with. I acknowledge the fear without becoming caught up in it and I open my heart in compassion to this one that I perceive is trapped in an illusion. I love them; I accept them where they are, and in doing so, even though I accept them where they are, I do not choose to see them as being a person in fear or as a being as lost in illusion. I choose to see them as a Divine Child of God, truly loved and totally free. And by doing so, I open myself and them to the opportunity of existing and participating in a higher vibration of being. 

Please keep in mind that even though in the limited awareness of our separate self, we percive this as an individual journey,  we are also approaching this material in the midst of our racial consciousness. It is not one person who creates a war or any other profound low vibrational set of circumstances. It is the consciousness or perhaps the unconsciousness of many beings that produces these results. Although, in some ways, each one of us is working out our own salvation, what we do and how we experience it also has a profound effect on all beings.

There is a school in Buddhism named Mahayana, which literally means the Big Boat. Its philosophy is that the boat does not leave until everyone is on it. The Buddha chose to contunue incarnations until all are enlightened. It is somewhat similar to the image presented in A Course in Miracles of Jesus, as the ascended Christ consciousness, standing at the open door to Union with the Father or what we sometimes refer to as Oneness, and  what he says essentially is “I will not go through the door until everyone else is here. 

We are reminded again how the vibrational energy of this work and that we are being taught and lead not just through words or the mind or the intellect, but that the guides are working within us through our own willingness and intention to raise our vibration and the vibration of all beings. As was pointed out--vibration effects matter such as the body rather than the other way around.

There was a startling image that I found tremendously moving:

“You imagine the old lady dressed for her wedding many years after the wedding failed. She still expects the music and the dancing, but her veil is corrupt, her dress in tatters. In many ways, you are all this woman when you defy your present moment and the gifts that are present in it by assuming what you should be or should have been. The music of the Divine Self is always playing on the worst night or the best. It is here, it is here, it is here, and may be known as and by you.”

Fear Is all that keeps us away from the truth. The truth of Who We Are, the perfect love and the perfect piece that we could be experiencing. “Why is this so?” you ask, “Why would we hold onto fear that seems to get in the way of what we desire the most?

Each one of us has our own answers to that question, but the world that most of us grew up in was one in which qualities such as peace, joy, happiness, contentment and even simply being in balance--our experience of those qualities was all pretty arbitrary in nature. We were all trained to identify with our personality selves and because of that we remained almost completely dependent upon external circumstances to create these essential qualities. We did not look upon them as being our birthright as Spiritual Beings, we looked upon them as being created by the circumstances in life which we had little or no control over. So the peace, self-esteem, and happiness all could be whisked away by someone else’s whim or anger.

To protect ourselves from that devastation, we created a fear around those qualities, which we desire the most, because it was just so painful when they were taken away.

I know all of this still remains true when we are speaking of our personality self. Yes, from the point of view of the personality self, all of these qualities that we seek are arbitrary and elusive and can be taken away in a twinkling. However when we are in alignment with our divine self, these qualities that we seek-- love, peace, prosperity, wellness can never be taken away because they already exist as part of our being.

So here again where our identification with our personality self interferes with our knowing and our experience of the truth of Who We Are.

Although we were all moved by the awareness that war is murder I would also encourage us to be aware of the following paragraphs which might serve as an antidote to our racial consciousness that has grown to believe that War or conflict is inevitable.

“Now, when we teach you freedom, we operate in some ways with what you are in your current expression to be valued by you so that you may move beyond it in the new claim that you make. “I am free as I am in this moment, in this eternal now.” And the being that you are, who knows herself as free, unchained, unattached, untethered to the rules and regulations of society’s need to conform, to be what they think you should be, what you would be by another’s rule, the truth of what you are may be liberated and known and sung in a new song.”

“As you stand before us, we wish to claim you again in freedom. And realize this, friends. We are claiming what is true and what is always true, just what has been denied by a world that is operating out of alignment with truth.

We see you in your beauty, we see you in your right to be, in all you have known and may know, and in your freedom you may sing the new song of truth that is your embodiment. We call you forth, each and every one of you, the wonderful brigade we witness in transformation who claim their truth, not only for their own well-being, but for the well-being of their world.”

And finally, today, let us dwell on the following piece:

“The gift you receive today is a higher vibration in announcement: “I have claimed my truth, and the manifestation of it will be known by me.” As you announce this—“I have claimed my truth”—the alignment to what you’ve received that is already present in your field will begin to work with you to out-picture this in your experience. The truth of what you are, the manifested self, will begin to resonate as the body you hold, and the experience of consciousness that you embody as will reflect back the new world we have talked to you about.

Now the incarnation you stand in has been brought to you to recover and remember and reknow what you are outside of claims made in history. And the relinquishing of the past, as we have discussed thus far, is required on certain levels to begin to perceive the self as without the fear that was born in past times.

All fear, you see, seeks to work in memory. You have an intention to be free, and the fear that you may have known of what it entails, what you might have to encounter, what others will say or do, is what inhibits you. It is never anything in the present moment because the present moment that you know yourself in is, in fact, untethered by historical data as you know what you are.”

In grace and in gratitude for us all.

BOOK OF TRUTH 13

P. 263-271

This chapter is a prelude to the next installment--THE BOOK OF FREEDOM.

The crux of this lesson is that “You do not become your Divine Self; your Divine Self becomes who you are.” 

The trap or predicament that we continually create for ourselves is that we are attempting to make our personality selves into our Divine Self. And that path can only lead to frustration and disappointment.

The following excerpt was from another class, but I thought the information fit our exploration last night

The diagram to the left is an attempt to illustrate a truth that is often times elusive. Because we are trained to identify more and more with our personality selves, when we are introduced to the idea of spirituality and especially the idea that we are made in the image and likeness of God, that we have within ourselves a Divine self, and that each one of us is a unique expression of the Divine, what happens is that we attempt to reach that divinity, that perfection, through our personality selves. What we have done then is to set up an impossible situation that continually leads to frustration and sometimes despair. (My human nature will never become my Divine Nature--however, as my evolution continues, my human nature will become a more and more perfect instrument through which my Divine self will express itself).

My personality self does not evolve into my divine nature. What happens more than anything else, is that my Divine Nature becomes who I am. In other words, it becomes my identity. Now the work that is done here is done through willingness, intention, awareness, surrender, and imagination. And all five of these elements are continually contributing to our grows and evolution.

The mind would like to think that there is a place or a space I am getting to, and then I will be done, but, you see, our growth and evolution are continuing processes. In a way, they are never done. (that would be like saying, “Well, I think I have loved you enough,” or “I’ve experienced enough love; you can stop now.” Thinking that something is done or finished is the result of living in the illusion of time; in the Eternal now there just is.

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Our personality self, our ego, always has an agenda, a goal or selt of goals, and as long as we have skin that dynamic will probably continue. A beautiful part of this work is that the ego and personality are neither denied nor made into the enemy, we simply realize it is not who we are.

“On this day I choose to release myself from all expectations of how things should be, or what they should look like as perceived by the small self. And in this claim of freedom, I realize myself as the one who is independent from the foils and beliefs of collective agreement that would seek to hinder me from my true expression as my True Self. I know who I am in truth. I know what I am in truth. I know how I serve in truth. I am here. I am here. I am here.”

The wise man strives to no goals

but the foolish man fetters himself.

There is one Dharma, not many.

Distinctions arise

from the clinging needs of the ignorant.

To seek Mind with the (discriminating) mind

is the greatest of all mistakes. From the Hisn hsin Ming

It is emphasized that we are not waiting for something to happen or we are not doing whole bunch of requirements to reach this higher vibration, this higher state of consciousness. We are choosing, whenever we are consciously aware enough, we are choosing to allow the Divine Self to shine through.

As is so often spoken of in spiritual literature all of this happens within the Eternal Now, the present moment. I would suggest that being aware of these “now” moments is probably much more a part of our lives then we give ourselves credit for. Even as we were sitting together in our little circle, there were many instances when we were simply in the moment. Of course the mind was probably doing some chattering, but we might have found it was OK to let it do what it was doing without trying to pound it into submission, and at the same moment, to simply be present with these other beings we are sharing this path with.

The most contradictory energy that pulls us from the now moment is Judgement or its first cousin “being right.”

There have been any number of times when I have found myself being blissful and instead of just completely enjoying that state of consciousness, I would immediately wonder “Why I am experiencing this?” and as soon as I enter into the realm of the intellect, of course, my connection with bliss in the present moment has been extinguished.

Just as the thinking described in the beginning of this lesson is an indication of how we get it all backwards and confused, shows up in this question from Paul. It is an indication of the same kind of limited thinking; I am looking for proof in the outside world for an inner reality that my heart already knows.

We can change our thinking and therefore change our reality, but we are also cautioned to let go of how all of that will be manifested in the material world. We do not know what that might look like nor do we know what time frame might be involved in working through the density of matter to allow that outer transformation to take place.

I've probably mentioned this before but it continues to be rather poignant. I believe this is what Jesus was speaking of when he said “Blessed are those who have not seen and yet believe.” In other words, “Blessed are those who know that they know within their hearts and are not looking for external verification of an internal truth.” 

“Now, Paul is concerned by the teaching. “We need evidence. We need to know that this is so, or it makes no sense. We cannot know if how we perceive our world informs the world.”

As we closed our eyes and meditated together last evening, we joined together in love and intention and experienced a vibration or level of awareness beyond the five senses and the intellect. In my experience I continue to have an awareness that there were a number of bodies sitting in a circle in the living room at Gerry and Margo's house and yet, at the same time, there was a spaciousness that went beyond physical reality. There was also a flow of this eternal now. The physical world remained the physical world, and yet it somehow became rather irrelevant to the state of consciousness that we shared with one another.

Peace.

Thank you!!!!!!

BOOK OF TRUTH 12

P. 251-262

We literally spent much of this session exploring this sense and experience of vibration. One of the images or models that were used was that of a tuning fork. (If you are not familiar with that concept, a tuning fork is primarily a piece of metal of a certain size an a certain weight that is created to vibrate only at one particular frequency or to vibrate in resonance with a single note on the musical scale.) 

Now if you could imagine that we have thousands and thousands of these points of resonance within ourselves (our body,mind and Spirit). 

We were talking about being in accord with or alignment with or in agreement with a particular idea or experience. This is a bit of a different language for us, so the simplest illustration of this for me would be to imagine that I am close to a person who I know truly loves me. I can keep this as a piece of intellectual information, I could be moved by it emotionally, but there is also a deeper reality. When I align myself to your love for me I not only receive that love from you, I become that love and of course you become that love as well. In this instance when I choose to be open to receiving or experiencing your Love, I allow myself to be in agreement with it or to be in alignment with it or to be in resonance with it.

We explored this even on an even more significant level. Let us go back to the tuning fork idea. Certainly the vibratory centers within me, high and low, can be influenced by my thoughts, the thoughts I choose to hold onto, those of higher vibration or those of lower vibration. Certainly, I can allow my vibrational level to be influenced by externals. This might especially be true if I find myself in victim consciousness, or vulnerability or fearfulness. 

I can also find myself attracted to certain people places or things that resonate with my own higher consciousness. The phrase that someone shared was “You bring out the Best in Me.” That is a beautiful example of being around person who exudes that higher vibration and how it allows you to be open to vibrate at that higher level as well. (Notice the higher vibration was alwasy there--it was not created by some outside force.)

“On this day I choose to bear witness to only truth in all I see, and each one I meet will be instilled in the octave of truth that I abide in as my Divine Self. The call I give, ‘You are here, you are here, you are here,’ to each one I pass announces them all in their purview as the True Self, the Divine Self, the Divine Being that they are in resonance, in action. I am Word through the one I see before me. On this day I choose to bear witness to the Divine truth in all mankind. I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word.” 

We do not deny the body here either or simply write it off as an illusion

“On this day I choose to release from my body all memories of witness, and all claims upon the body made by anyone, anywhere, that are contradictory to the truth of what I am. As I claim my Divine Self in manifest form, I align every cell of my being and the field that I hold to its innate truth, that the Source of my being, the True Divine, the Creator as I, is in perfect expression. And all the things that would deny this truth are being released and transformed in the knowing of what I am. I know what I am in truth. I am here. I am here. I am here.” 

Higher vibration is not going to be created by lower vibration. In other words, my personality self does not transform itself into my Divine nature. As I continue this work, I become more and more identified with the divine nature that I am, and in doing so I bless my personality self, my ego consciousness. You no longer become identified with the small self, but it remains an aspect of your continual learning here on Earth

He asks a question: “What is the process of this?” The process is alchemy, and we will say this, finally, again. Your investment, Paul, in picking things apart is based in history. “What will be the next step for me?” is what you are asking, as if you have control at a personality level of releasing the imprinting of a lifetime, or many lifetimes, if you wish, of witness by others, claims against the body by cultures, memories held in the body from past times. This is all done in a higher octave. And the re-creation of the self does not make you look any different than perhaps you do today, because the truth of what you are will be expressed as what you are, and your idealization or glorification of the physical self as something other than true, and always true, will be met by you in falsity. The Divine as what you are must only express as you wherever you stand. The idea, Paul, that you will look like a God upon a mountaintop and radiating light is in fact true at a higher level because you are all this. You are all on a mountaintop and radiating light as the Truest Self. 

It must be noted that we are not being encouraged to simply be passive about our growth asn evolution because we are also cultivating the energy of choice around which vibrational level we might choose no matter what the circumstance. A Course in Miracles proclaims this very simply by suggesting, “I could see peace instead of this.” I have a choice of what vibration I respond to and I have a choice as to what my response might be. 

In the 60s we spoke quite often of vibrations, but I do not think we ever truly keyed in or understood exactly what we were talking about. However some expressions remain true today. “Getting high” was not just about chemicals, it is also a description of being in a place or State of Mind of higher vibration. I also recall another expression which stated “I can't do that; it just brings me down.” In other words it puts me in a lower vibrational state.

Hear what we are doing is realizing that the vibrational State we align to is both the choice we make on both the conscious and a vibratory level. But this is not simply a choice being in a higher vibratory state; it is also the realization that that higher vibration, that tuning fork, already exists inside of me. it is already there. You already are a being of highest consciousness.

 “We see you as you are. We see you as you can only be. And in this frequency of truth, we witness the reacclimation of what you are in the form you have taken to be expressed as in this lifetime. We know who you are. We know what you are. We know how you serve. You are here. You are here. You are here. Be in truth.”

Good to be back!!!! Thank you all.