EXCERPTS from BEYOND IMAGINATION: BEST OF NOTES BOOK 2
We are spiritual beings having a physical experience. It is not the other way around, no matter how much it may seem so. For most of us, our immediate sense is that we are physical. We have bodies, and brains that are equally physical. It is not so obvious at all that our true state is spiritual. Even more difficult to accept is that our current expression in flesh is that of our spirit being expressed in flesh. From that standpoint, to be physical is to be spiritual. There is an equality between the two.
Know Thyself! That's the key. Consciousness expands via the continuous pursuit of this one maxim. The amazing part is that since there is only One Self, One Consciousness, of which we temporarily perceive ourselves to be independent of; at some point the illusion vanishes and we know that we are that ONE, even in the midst of our individuality, and yet there is no fear that our unique identity will be lost in the merging for this is preserved as well.
There is a level at which we are ONE, where no separation exists, and where there are no limits. However, getting to that level is tricky. Many say the path is narrow and difficult to follow. I would offer that such thinking is limiting in and of itself. Why must the path to enlightenment be so? Why can't it be wide and easy to follow? The answer is that the illusion is so thick that it is nearly impossibly to find one's way to what is real. This is why we have guides and wayshowers. They are there to light the way for others. Further, when enough have trod the path, it will be wide enough to bring in the road builders and the transportation vehicles to take larger numbers of people through that much easier.
Once we finish our explorations of limitation, it will be time to go onto bolder Adventures in Consciousness. I believe that was the title of one of Jane Roberts books. The theme that comes to mind is a variation of one from Star Trek, "to boldly go where no consciousness has gone before." To some degree, I believe that I am doing this now. But, I also sense that this is only the beginning of preparation for where I am to go next. Needless to say, this makes for an interesting life. Yet, it is the life that I must lead, for such is what I came to do.
There is a deep sense of knowingness. It's as if I've tapped into a well that is inexhaustible and knows anything that I could ever need to know. I only have to resign my will, my conscious control to allow it to provide whatever might be needed. I sense that trust is the key. Without it, the mechanism for drawing knowledge from the well does not work. Interesting. I'm in the observer role more and more. Consciously, I'm in the process of constructing models that describe reality in a manner consistent with what I am experiencing. There is some inner need for me to do this. I am compelled. It is as if I truly have no choice, and I really believe that consciously indeed I have none. It's very interesting that this be so, especially given the creativity apparent in these writings. In fact, I'm sure many would consider them fiction, or would think that I, with an MSEE from Stanford must surely be writing in jest. Yet, I assure you such is not the case. What is written here is what consciousness has chosen to express through me, accompanied by my oft-time feeble attempts to consciously understand what spiritual symbols mean.
The bottom line is faith in consciousness. All my life, everything that I have needed to know just came to me either from internal or external sources. I never had to search for it, nor even ask for it. Overall, the process has been pleasantly surprising leading me to great treasure stores of words that now form the foundation for my understanding of Whom That I Am and how the world works.
The consciousness that expressed through Emerson and Thoreau, is the same consciousness that expressed through Socrates and Plato, and is the same consciousness that expresses through me now. You may judge me to be highly ego-centric to put myself in such august company. Yet, I don't feel this to be the case. It is by awareness only that one reaches any position. Further, that awareness should be demonstrated in both deeds and words.
Weave me a peaceful world, he said. Such is the commandment I giveth unto you. Carry it out to the greatest degree that you can. Let your every thought, your every action, be aligned with this mission. This is what Beyond Imagination is all about. The Aquarian Age is all nice and good, but your particular purpose is more specific and forms the fundamental building block on which all else is based. I am a messenger, a scribe, of she who sent me. This she be none other than Consciousness herself. And, while I am part of her, and she part of me, she is the greater by far, and in many ways the only one of us that exists. As a part, the limitations that I accept and experience enable me to see things in different ways, allowing consciousness to expand by my experience. Not only my personal consciousness, but the entire matrix of which I am a part, all the way to consciousness herself. Everything is consciousness and consciousness creates thought forms out of herself. And these thought forms are realities composed of worlds inhabited by smaller sparks of consciousness. Yet, the sparks never truly separate from their source, while at the same time their experience is beyond that which the whole could ever experience.
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