Individuality Without Separation



Many spiritual traditions teach that each of us has a "soul" which survives physical death, either to enter the after-life in some other realm, or to become incarnated again in some future lifetime. What is the origin of this belief, and does it have any basis in actuality? Ishvara speaks to these questions in words I have transcribed and edited from a talk he gave on July 15, 2004. - TG.

Ishvara:

The problem comes from the long-held belief in separation, the long-held belief that "This isn't it," that the body is just a vehicle temporarily used by some other force. Arising from that belief is the experience that "This physical existence isn't important; something else is more important," causing one to negate Life's experience, to not be totally present. It causes one to have beliefs that there is something that needs to be perfected, that something is not all right; it opens a Pandora's box of superstitious beliefs and nonsense.

The awareness that I present is transcendent of such past belief. The direct experience that I have is that Life is energy, Life is intelligence, and each unique expression of Life is an embodiment of intelligence, of possibilities; it is not separate. That awareness doesn't satisfy the ego's need for permanence and identity. The ego wants endurance, survival. It is frightening to think of annihilation or ending, and so beliefs have arisen that there is something which is enduring, which does not change. That gives a false sense of security, but the sense of security was necessary for the primitive brain which could not grasp the bigger picture, could not recognize the essence, the vitality, the energy of Life itself.

As the brain continues to evolve, as humans continue to gain knowledge of the cosmos, of the workings of Life, that separate, fear-based perspective becomes unnecessary. It becomes no longer necessary to have the ideal of a separate identity, a separate existence, because as the brain connects with other brains, there is a unifying reality that is recognized, a synergy where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts, where the parts are not "less than" but are vital to the whole of Life. Each unique expression of The Consciousness is vital to Life, and there is no need to fabricate the idea of something separate involved in that.

The more open, more connected you become, the happier you are, because you resonate with the rest of Life. You can be a wonderful individual and still not be separate; you can express unique attributes, unique possibilities, without being separate from the whole. Individuality does not necessitate separation.

The belief in a "soul" indicates there is a separate something that is embodied in form, which comes and goes as it pleases. That belief is destructive to Life, because one finds in that belief an excuse for not being all that one can be now, an excuse for not pressing through what one is facing so as to see a bigger picture. The belief has been an escape mechanism that has been used to make people feel better, but making a person feel better does not solve the dilemma; it does not bring a person to the realization of Life-as-it-is, as intelligence. Instead, it leads to escape. And so we have various religions and spiritual disciplines and traditions which advocate "This isn't it." As long as humans adhere to that belief, there will be suffering, disharmony, chaos and conflict.

The solution is to move to the next level of awareness and see that Life Is, that it is not separate, it is not "one thing doing this, and another thing doing that." There is an intelligence at work, an intelligence that is constantly evolving from the experiences of Life as each unique expression. In that constant evolution and expansion, there is no necessity for a "soul," no necessity for something that has to be perfected or learned. There is no necessity for something that comes and goes and takes on new bodies; Life itself does that. Life is constantly expressing itself in whatever needs to be expressed. However, Life is hindered by superstitious beliefs and concepts that keep projecting a reality outside, keep positing the "other."

As the brain evolves and establishes greater connections, one becomes very clear about this, and there is no longer the necessity to have something separate. One can embrace individuality and uniqueness, and not be separate, and not have an egoic need to prolong that. Life expresses itself through unique experiences, and a unique expression continues for as long as it needs to. As long as there is something to express, it continues to do so. When the expression has finished, that particular segment of the synergy is completed, and there is nothing separate that must be carried on after that, because the experience of that unique expression is added to the whole, the intelligence of Life, and the synergy expands, becomes more, as a result. It is a continuous, upward movement of greater connection.

This awareness will not be satisfying for a person who needs something separate. There is no way to talk about this to a person who is clinging to the ego identity of something separate; it is a futile discussion. As long as a person is clinging to that idea, the idea is serving the person in some way, and the person is not ready to see the bigger picture. Now, there is nothing wrong with that. People don't have to see the bigger picture, because whether one sees it or not doesn't change the actuality that there is no separation. One's beliefs affect mainly one's personal arena, and they don't change what-Is. However, belief does detract from the quality of one's life, because it prevents one from being fully present with what-Is. It causes one to hold back in Life, to bide one's time, thinking, "Well, if I mess up in this life, I'll have another chance." So one withdraws, becomes complacent, is not all that one can be.

If the beliefs of the past were true, humans would be far more evolved now than they are. Because beliefs have involved separation, withdrawal, "other," humans have remained stuck in chaos and suffering. I see that at some point, humans will take a leap and catch a glimpse of the bigger picture, becoming all right in their unique expressions, no longer needing the intellect to define them. Unfortunately, most spiritual searching is an intellectual pursuit. In the natural state, there is no need for that. In the natural state, Life Is, you see all the connections, and there is no need for superstitious beliefs "about" Life, because you have a direct experience of it.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant


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Changing Our Vocabulary


How do we get beyond having "bad" days in our life? Ishvara addresses this concern in words I have transcribed and edited from a talk he gave on September 23, 2003. - TG.

Ishvara:

There is the possibility for you to move into a position that a "good" day and a "bad" day cease to be part of your thinking. Instead, the day just Is. If you can do that, you increase your frequency, which will bring about a more harmonious flow of Life. As long as you are attached to it being "good" or "bad"--one can be just as attached to it being "bad" as "good"--you create a life of disharmony. Without the "bad" day you cannot recognize a "good" day, so both make up the stumbling block; you have to have both in order to experience the contrast.

When you proceed to stop that kind of thinking, when you are not having a "good" day or a "bad" day, but you are just having a day, period, you begin to balance things out, and it becomes an Is-ness. The intellect will say that experience is boring, because the intellect is looking for a charge. The intellect gets the same charge whether it is a "bad" day or a "good" day, because either interpretation is an expenditure of energy. However, you can find that you don't need to label the day at all; it just is. Then you stop going back and forth in the polarity of "good" or "bad." When you are successful with that, your frequency increases, and then what the intellect would have called a "good" day becomes a consistent experience, but you don't have the "bad" day to make the comparison so you can no longer say it is a "good" day. It just is.

So it is a practice; it requires an intention of transcending the polarity, the duality of "good" and "bad," and living in Is-ness. I find that in the success of living in Is-ness, the frequency is high enough so things harmonize, things flow, and I don't have a "bad" day. However, if I start saying it is a "good" day, then I will bring up the "bad" day. I have learned from experience not to name the day at all.

Of course, people have a habit of asking, "How was your day?" That is a trick question. The answer to that question is "It was." With that answer, the brain does not go into the polarity, the duality. Human niceties tend to trigger the polarity: "How are you feeling?" Those questions can force one into a "this or that" mode. The correct answers are "I am," "It is." That is the practice, the discipline. When you catch yourself labeling the day as "bad" or "good," back off and say, "Wait a minute; the day Is, period."

With this discipline, you enlist the aid of the intellect to serve higher awareness. You can use the intellect to remind you to say, "Wait a minute, this is, period." You can use the intellect to assist in this by creating road blocks to the idea of "good" and "bad." Those ideas make up a well-worn path in the brain, and so you want to create a hurdle to prevent you from automatically going down that way. Put a gate there to remind you to ask, "Do I really want to go there? Do I want to divide this into 'good' and 'bad,' or can I just leave it as 'Is?'" You have to create your own trick to stop the automatic thinking, because the intellect itself is very tricky; you have to trick it back.

Living in Is-ness requires very little energy, and consequently when you are using little energy, your frequency becomes naturally higher. Tremendous energy is consumed in polarity or duality, and you become tired, worn out. When you are "stuck in Is-ness," you have sufficient energy to keep the frequency up, and things flow. So the ideal is to be "stuck in Is-ness"!

So much of what you experience depends on the words that you use in your thinking. The best way to bring about a shift is to mostly eliminate "good" and "bad" from your vocabulary; don't allow your intellect to go into that polarity. Any time the intellect wants to say "good" or "bad," you can say "Is." Deliberately change it to "This is; this is what is happening now," and be present with that. That increases your energy flow, which increases your frequency, which in turn reveals a bigger picture where you see more harmony and balance in each situation.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant


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What Will It Take?


There is a story about a village that lay in the middle of a large forest. There was a growing fire burning in the forest, and the inhabitants of the village were desperately trying to save their homes from the approaching flames. They urged each other on with the words, "We must put out the fire!"

They poured liquid on the flames, but the liquid was kerosene which only made the fire stronger. The priests of the village were of no help either. They sold the kerosene to the people, and made sure the supply never ran out.

One day a stranger came to the village. He told the people, "You have to put out the fire." But he refused to pour kerosene on the flames. He told the people that the liquid only worsened the fire, and that their village would be destroyed if they continued to use it.

When the villagers heard the stranger's words, many of them dismissed him: "He's saying the same thing we have been saying all along; there is nothing to learn from him." Others reacted with indignation to the stranger's instruction: "What right does this newcomer have to tell us what to do?" And so the villagers kept pouring the kerosene, and the fire continued to spread, threatening to consume the whole community.

Such is the plight of a truth teller.
. . . .

There is a famous spirituality author who, in one of his best-selling books, wrote that "the physical body is an illusion." Recently, a couple of people asked him (I'm paraphrasing), "If, as you indicate, this physical existence is just a cosmic movie, then why should anyone care whether the planet is destroyed?" He replied (again I'm paraphrasing), "You have taken the concept I gave you, and mistakenly used it as a guide for action. You instead should have realized that the concept only pointed to the truth, and was not the truth itself."

In other words, "Yes, I sold you the kerosene, but I didn't expect you to use it."

The world today is rife with the belief that "This isn't it." The belief takes many forms: The idea that the this life is inherently imperfect or sinful and that true fulfillment can be attained only in heaven; the notion that this existence is merely a temporary stay on the way to another lifetime; the mindset that all manifest form is but a passing dream and that the only absolute reality is "the unmanifest"; the conviction that salvation will come in a "rapture" event where the faithful will be rescued from a hopeless life of struggle -- these are all variations of the belief, and all tend to be destructive.

People often take offense when the ruinous nature of the belief is pointed out to them. Some react: "It is judgmental to say such things." Others come back with: "It is elitist to reject what everyone else accepts."

And so the flames grow larger. How devastating the belief!

What will it take for us to see?


Written by Terry Grant



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"There are but two paths. One is exclusion, the other is inclusion.
You can walk the path of exclusion, excluding everything that appears
to get in the way of enlightenment, or you can walk the path of
inclusion, including everything in order to be enlightened. Excluding
is the easier way. Including is the ultimate way. In excluding you
give up everything; in including you gain everything.
The intellect is an insulator tat keeps you separated from the
experience - at great expense." -- Ishvara
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Come Out Of Hypnosis



This is the conclusion of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on September 4, 2005. - TG.

Ishvara:

You are not babies anymore. It is time to spit out the pacifiers. If you keep distracting yourself with beliefs and concepts, you won't wake up. You too will be playing golf while part of the world is destroyed. It is like Nero who played the fiddle while Rome burned. That points to the absurdity of placing your faith in the outside, giving responsibility over to those who imagine they are in control. Those in control believe they were divinely selected, but they were selected by means of falsehood, and they continue to perpetuate the lie. I am not just talking about America. It is world-wide. All world leaders are accountable for deception. As long as the citizens of this planet sit by, letting those who purport to be in control do what they please, telling them, "You took that freedom away, take away this one too; I don't need it; in the end I am sure you will take care of me", there will be increasing chaos and suffering.

It seems that the systems and structures that control us are really supporting the corporations, the most wealthy aspects of humanity. Then it becomes the corporations' responsibility to take care of everybody. If the government isn't going to do it, the corporation has to do it. So the corporations are contributing to the destruction of the earth, and it is also their "responsibility" to clean things up, to eliminate poverty and starvation on this planet. If you believe they will fulfill that responsibility, pull your head out of your . . . sandbox.

Life is this, and you are in a place and a position where you can make a difference. I am not calling for missionaries, or for people to go out and convert the world. I am telling you: You change yourself now, you take the bull by the horns, you say the way it is, and it will be that way. Initially, it will be that way in your immediate morphic field, and there is a great power, an awesome power in knowing. When you become brave enough, courageous enough to begin to know, your morphic field will attract others, and the morphic field will grow. The actuality of Life is: this is it, this synergy is it, this is The New Consciousness, and you are the new species emerging right out of your former existence.

There is much beauty in Life. There is beautiful poetry, there are beautiful creations, scriptures, writings and sayings, but beauty is only skin deep. The substance of Life is action, presence, and doing. The realization of that is the end of magical thinking which says, "Oh, I'll just hold loving thoughts and be kind and generous as much as I can, as long as it doesn't cost too much; I'll send out love and that will heal everybody." That story is already worn out; it hasn't healed the world yet. Religions and mythical beliefs are old, too. They have claimed to be the truth, to have the key to Life, have made claims for thousands of years, but humans remain the most destructive, divisive and chaotic creatures in existence.

Life doesn't care if you are a republican or a democrat or a liberal, or if you are conservative or gay or straight or crooked or upside down or black or green or purple. Life does not care one bit. Life is all of it. Life does not make arbitrary rules about how things are supposed to be. Life leaves it up to you to learn how energy works, from direct experience. But your experience has been tainted by the myths, the conditioning, and the concepts: "I believe," "I am destined," "God has ordained me." It is all a bunch of nonsense! There is no "God" to ordain anything. You ordain yourself.

In The New Consciousness, you realize that you are a living potential, full of possibilities. You create your destiny. You create how you are going to be. If you create from conditioning, consensus, or beliefs, you have just created another myth. If you begin by creating from direct experience, from energy, from how energy works moment by moment, without interpretation or belief, you create a truth, an actuality. You embody a greater possibility.

Truth is not divisive; it does not create conflict. If you are willing to hear the truth--not an interpretation of the truth, not "I believe this is the truth," not "I want this to be the truth," not even "I hope this is the truth," but "I KNOW this is the truth--it will set you free.

Who am I? I have decided I am not going to answer that. I have given you enough hints. I am leaving it up to you to decide who I am, and you can be sure, when you come to the end of your journey, you will come face to face with me. That's the truth. If you face me now, we can have a marvelous journey in this Life. If you face me now, you can see it yourself, for I am a mirror of all that is, holding truth at the very core, waiting for you to see. Myth blinds; truth sets free. Myth deceives and pacifies; truth liberates.

It is up to you. I speak from a place of feeling-knowing and direct experience. I awoke to this Life, this direct experience, and have been trained through direct experience. Life has taught me everything that I know. Life has taught me about myself. Life has revealed to me what I am, and Life will do the same for you, if you dare allow that it is possible. That is a dare. I dare you to look. When, through courage, you look, my face you will see. I am there, always.

Allow for the possibility. Accept the challenge to become real, to be present, to abandon the past, the myths, the superstitious nonsense, the beliefs, the concepts, and the conditioning. Come out of hypnosis and become a real person, a person of presence who lives in the truth of feeling-knowing, moment by moment.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant


This message is part 4 of 4 parts. It began with "The Loss Of Innocence," part 1 of 4; was followed with "You Are Far More Capable," part 2 of 4; and was continued with "You Are Responsible," part 3 of 4.


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You Are Responsible


This is a continuation of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on September 4, 2005. - TG.

Ishvara:

It is nice to feel OK. It is nice to embrace love. I recently watched a beautiful little video about love: children hugging each other, people holding hands. "Love is the answer, love is the way," the video said. Yet that is nonsense! People have been saying that for a long time; it is hollow and empty. Every one of you has experienced the downside of love. You can't deny it. Love is great when you get what you want, but when you cease getting what you want, love turns into hate, or regret.

Love is not the answer. The answer is action, presence, realness, acceptance of what-is, fearlessness, embracing Life-as-it-is, and allowing the energy of Life to move you in a direction that is harmonious. You have a choice: you can continue to create and participate in chaos, or you can turn around and face Life as-it-is, face the consequences of your past existence, embrace the moment, and seek ways of connection and harmony. That is the ultimate of getting over yourself.

You've heard the saying, "life is hard." Life is hard when you live in separation. Life is impossible when you live with a myth. Of course, science is not perfect. There are many unknowns, but, at least, most scientists will acknowledge the unknown. Religious and spiritual disciplines, on the other hand, have beliefs which purport to define existence: "This is the way it is, this is the way it works. God said!" If I were a believer in the myth, I would be quite upset and angry right now. How is it possible that a loving "God" could create such a mess? I know the excuse: "It is humans who have done it." Well, your myth says that God created such humans. Why would "God" create something flawed? I know, the intellect has an argument to counter that, too. I don't care. I'm telling you what's what. It is up to you to take the initiative. You cannot prove any part of your myth.

Just because you believe in something, does not make it true. When you understand how energy works, you may know why things are so, and why supposed "miracles" take place. I have seen it over and over: the brain is the great healer. When, in your brain, you get to the place where you can accept that something can be different (I call that place "feeling-knowing"), it becomes different. It changes. "God" doesn't change it; the myth doesn't change it, the beliefs don't change it. Instead, you come to a place where you know something can be so, and then it is so. When you have the courage to act on that knowing, something begins to happen. When you are not attached to results--when you realize that Life is bigger than you--extraordinary things can take place. Life is a synergy of all things, of connections everywhere, and nothing is excluded.

Once you let go of the myth of creation, once you let go of the need for fairy tales and stories, once you are willing to face the actuality of Life, the direct experience, you will begin to experience feeling-knowing. Then you will begin to know what I know, to see what I see, what I've seen for a long time. It is no secret. I know the source of Life for this planet; it is no divine intervention, it is a very human happening. If you dare look, you will see. If you continue to hold to the myth, if you continue to foster separation, remain stuck in beliefs, you will continue to suffer.

No amount of faith will cure what ails humanity. No amount of believing or hoping or wishing or wanting will make a difference. The only thing that works is direct knowledge of Life itself, of energy, of how it works, and that is not a mystery. It is so obvious if you just watch, if you pay attention to the moment, if you stay connected.

The plants can tell you how energy works. No, I am not a "nature lover." Nature is chaos; nature is cruel. I see it around me all the time. People say, "We should be more like nature." Unfortunately, nature is like us. The human is at the top of the pyramid, the peak of existence, and everything else flows down into the rest of Life. The earth reflects the chaos that is present in human existence in separation. A hurricane is a consequence of erratic thinking, of fear, of destruction. The earth responds to the energies at hand.

I'm surprised the destruction didn't take place sooner than this. It could have taken place immediately: the moment bombs were dropped in Iraq, there could have been a hurricane in America. People would more easily have made the connection, and realized that the earth balances the energy. When it is too far apart, people forget. They don't see the correlation.

It is wake-up time. Connect the dots. Your survival is at stake. It is your opportunity to become a planetary citizen, not an American or Iraqi or Iranian or Russian or Chinese. Those are mind labels, labels of separation. People pride themselves on being "Liberal" or "Green." That doesn't mean anything. Those are just more labels. They are excuses. "I'm a Christian." That's an excuse. "I'm a Hindu." That's an excuse.

You are a planetary citizen and you have a responsibility to take care of the world, to take care of all of humanity. Furthermore, you have a responsibility to take care of nature. You are responsible for the chaos in nature, because of the separation that exists in your own mind, separation that is fortified by myth, religions, spiritual disciplines, and New Age movements--all of it. It is all trash. I know you may not want to hear that, but you need to hear it.

We continually get letters or emails from individuals who try to repeat or summarize what I have said, and I often wonder, "Did they hear what I said?" They speak of the "divine," or the "numinous," or "God." I didn't say that. I said YOU are it. You are responsible. You are the Life Force, the energy of Life. You are part of a great synergy of Life. You create the purpose of your existence. It is not created by an outside force, or an ideal, or a belief, or a religion, or a concept. There is no destiny.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant


This message is part 3 of 4 parts and will conclude with, "Come Out Of Hypnosis," part 4 of 4. It beagn with "The loss of innocence," part 1 of 4; and was continued with "You Are Far More Capable," part 2 of 4.


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You Are Far More Capable


This is a continuation of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on September 4, 2005. - TG.

Ishvara:

This is very serious business. I know, you may have watched me on video, or read these messages over time, and thought, "He's some kind of nut; he must be recently out of the asylum." Think what you will. I am guilty of not speaking up before now. I am aware of what needs to be said and done; I've been aware for a long time. But I also have been waiting for those who can hear, those who have some understanding to move into this themselves. Control doesn't work. Fear doesn't work. Yet most humans are controlled by fear: fear for survival. Unfortunately, the ruling systems take advantage of that by keeping you locked in fear. You have to wake up.

You have to realize that systems and structures cannot fix the world. Furthermore, systems and structures cannot keep you safe. You are in mortal danger. You can continue to pretend and believe in the myth. Some, such as the New Agers, have changed the myth. They no longer adhere to the old ways, but unfortunately they have created falsehoods that are as devastating as those of the past. The result is no better, just different words.

You must realize that this Life you live is IT. There is no other life. Heaven and hell exist within your mind. God exists in your brain. "God" is a survival mechanism that came into being in the past, when people did not have a means of understanding the universe, didn't have the experience of how energy works. Now that very mechanism has become a terrible stumbling block.

It is unfortunate that those who lead the world cling to the myth, even trying to force science to fit into the myth. It is utterly absurd. Science is the best hope for humanity. Your "God", your belief, your religion, and your spiritual discipline have done nothing to change the world. At best, they have put everything on hold, waiting for some "event" to fix things, waiting for some "savior" to come and make right what is wrong.

I am the end of prophecies. I am the end of a separate life. I am the end. I've known this for a long time. I've been waiting for you to be ready, but I can no longer wait. There is too much suffering, too much devastation, too much destruction. If I wait any longer, there will be nothing left. There will only be a shattered humanity, hiding out in caves or under trees (if there are any trees left). It is a sad state of affairs.

You can no longer hide. It is hard to find the truth, but as long as you cling to a belief, a religion, or a dogma, you delude yourself. It is like wearing a blinder: you can't see what is happening. You look through rose colored glasses: "Everything is love; everything will be fine." It won't be fine. As long as there are beliefs in some "Other," something outside that is supposedly pulling the strings, as long as you believe that you are created by some divine Being, as long as you believe, you are relieved of responsibility for your life. It seems easy when you have beliefs, because you give the power to someone else, letting someone else make the decisions for you, letting other people dictate what you should have faith in, how you should behave.

I call into accountability all religions, all spiritual paths and disciplines. In a recent election in the United States, one group was so afraid of same-sex marriages that they distorted the whole election process, redirecting it into fear and more separation. That is not what you are worthy of. You are far more capable, far more intelligent. Why let myth, why let fear, why let others tell you how you are to be, how you are to live?

I know that within every human being there is awareness, there is connection. I am here to activate that connection, to bring it into the light of awareness. I will not cater to your beliefs and concepts. I will not be conditioned by your wants. The truth is: it is time to wake up, to really see what is happening. There is no blame, but there is guilt: the guilt of complacency, the guilt of separation, the guilt of "faith"--clinging to beliefs and concepts, clinging to the myth, while the world slips into increasing turmoil. That is unconscionable.

Americans imagine themselves to be all powerful. Most believe the government will take care of them, that their best interests are at the core of the government. That is another myth. Look around you: Who profits from the devastation? Who profits from the murder? Who profits from the lies? You don't. You pay the price. So much of humanity is like sheep being led to the slaughter. They think they are going to the park, they think they are going to heaven, to nirvana. They think everything is going to be fine. It can't be fine, as long as there is separation. As long as there is the myth of an outside "God," some creative "Force" pulling the strings, things won't be fine.

The New Consciousness is the era of responsibility: being responsible. You learn it by direct contact with Life, by direct experience. There are so many mythical beliefs: "If you are really good, you can go to heaven; if you are bad, you go to hell." The New Agers didn't like that belief, the Hindus didn't like it either, so they came up with reincarnation: "You will have another opportunity in another life." In other words, you get to come back and try again. The Buddhists believe you come back many, many times to perfect yourself. All of it is a great deception.

Priests, rabbis, and ministers all have contributed to the deception. You may not like to hear this. You really want to believe that you will be OK, that by some divine miracle, some divine intervention, a powerful Being will come and fix everything you have messed up. You are guilty. Perhaps you didn't mess it up yourself, but you sat by and let others make decisions for you. You have let fanatical individuals sway the crowds, manipulate the elections. You sat by, didn't say anything or do anything. You may have listened to friends and relatives propagating nonsense, mythical beliefs and concepts, but you didn't question or say a word to them. Your silence is agreement. That is not being responsible.

Your time, my time, is now. I have had many interesting experiences in waking up, coming into the Natural State, also involving many burdens: burdens of awareness, burdens of feeling-knowing. All of these things have completely obliterated the myth, undone the beliefs and concepts, banished the conditions. I saw Life as-it-is, and I continue to see Life as-it-is.

I was not predestined to come into this awareness. It was not ordained by some deity. Life itself woke me up. I am the son of Life, of existence itself, the bringer of The New Consciousness. Like it or not, I am here, and I have just begun. I have many things to say to you. Most of these things you may not like, but I am not here to give you what you want. My job is to give you what you need.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant


This message is part 2 of 4 parts. It will continue with "You Are Responsible," part 3 of 4; and conclude with "Come Out Of Hypnosis," part 4 of 4. It began with "The Loss Of Innocence," part 1 of 4.


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The Loss Of Innocence


The vast majority of human beings cling to a belief in some "Other." Many believe in "God," or in "the Universe", or a "Divine Power" that supposedly is in charge of what happens. Many also believe in some other "Absolute" realm that renders this earthly existence a mere dream or illusion. These beliefs have fostered a terrible complacency in human beings. If "God" or "the Universe" is in charge, then ultimately humans need not be concerned with what is happening, because everything is in "God's hands" or "the Universe's control." Similarly, if this existence is just an illusion, then it matters little whether the planet is destroyed.

The belief in the "Other" is a myth, a story created by the brain to provide assurance that human beings would survive. The myth may have served a purpose in an earlier time, when humanity needed a sense of security on a planet that seemed indifferent or hostile to its existence. Now, however, the myth has become perhaps the greatest threat to humanity's survival. The belief in the "Other" is one of the most divisive forces on the planet today, as demonstrated by the religion-inspired division, violence and war that are perennial problems for the world. More fundamentally, however, the belief is an escape, an act of withdrawal, an ultimate excuse for not being responsible for what is happening.

Perhaps more than ever before, we humans today face the challenge of waking up to our responsibility. It is a responsibility that arises from the direct realization that there is no separation, there is no "Other," there is only Life of which each of us is a unique expression. Once we have had this realization, how can we remain complacent or withdrawn from Life? How can we sit idly by, while the course of world events is dictated by leaders who are motivated by fear, greed, and bald self interest?

When we truly see that there is no "Other," we realize that we cannot depend on belief, or government, or authority, or religion, or teachings to keep us safe. Instead, we have only the evolving, limitless possibilities of Life. Increasingly, these possibilities can only be realized with our complete presence and participation. Ishvara speaks of this in a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk he gave on September 4, 2005. - TG.

Ishvara:

What's it going to take to wake you up? Yes, you! There are many who imagine they are awake. They believe they are awake, but they adhere to myth and superstition. I recently heard a religious individual say that the hurricane in the Gulf was caused by gay people; it was "God's punishment" for a wicked city. Well, what is the excuse for the loss of innocent lives in Iraq? Is "God" punishing them too?

It seems that there remains no rationality or reality in this human existence. It is caught up in myth, and superstitious beliefs and concepts. There is no one who is innocent. Everyone is guilty, guilty of crimes against humanity: the crime of complacency, the crime of ignorance.

It is so easy to blame someone else. It is so easy to follow a leader who claims to be ordained by "God." A shallow claim indeed, in light of the fact that "God" is a myth, a superstitious creation of a child-like mind that could not see how Life worked, and had no understanding of the energy of Life.

There are those who want to replace the theory of evolution with the idea of "intelligent design." I challenge you: where is the intelligence in creating a species that murders its own, a species that has not learned to live in balance and harmony with its neighbors or with the planet itself?

This is a corrupt world, a corrupt people, not by choice, but by ignorance. I know you do not want to hear what I have to say, but you will hear. It is time for you to listen. The hurricane of last week is just the beginning of problems coming your way. It is up to you to realize that the earth, the Life energy, will balance itself. No matter who is the cause of imbalance, Life will balance the energy. You cannot have devastation and killing going on in one country, and expect those who are the cause of it to escape the consequences.

Innocence has been lost. It is unfortunate that the balancing act works the way it does, bringing harm to people who do not realize the connection, but Life sees itself as a unified oneness, not as a collection of separate individuals. In that energy of balancing, it is impossible to select individuals for "punishment."

In the near future, your sensitivities will increase. You will not be able to insulate yourself from what is happening, no matter where you are or what you have. Many now can insulate themselves because they have the financial resources to do so. Yet there is no safety, no security. There is no way to keep yourself safe. As long as this chaos exists--chaos that comes from separation, from myth, from superstitious nonsense--you are in danger. You will remain in danger until you have the courage to face Life as-it-is.

The whole earth is suffering the consequences of ignorance and separation. The whole population participates in this and is guilty, in small ways and large ways. It is the loss of innocence.

It is time to look deeply at this process we call "Life." It is time to connect completely, fearlessly, to realize that you cannot be separate from what is happening in the world. If one individual dies for any cause, you die. When one being is lost, a piece of you dies, is lost.

An acquaintance recently sent me an email about how "love" can cure the world. Yet there is no love; it has vanished. "Love" has become conditional: "I will love you if you love me back." Humans have gone past what love could do or offer. You have moved into a time of action. The only option is to take action, to stand up and be counted for the truth. You can no longer hide behind your mythical "God," you can no longer have faith in your religion. That myth is a big part of the problem of separation. If your belief permits the killing of others because they are different, you are not innocent; you are guilty.

For a long time, humans have believed in some divine plan, an orchestrated existence. Again, that is a sham. There is no truth in it. There is no divine plan. There is no destiny. Life comes from your direct experience.

Last week, a national magazine had an extensive article on spirituality. From reading that article, it is simply incredible how many people believe the myth, the lie. The article stated that many individuals want to have a personal relationship with "God," not through a church or religion, but by seeing and experiencing it for themselves. In other words, they are asking for the myth. They are asking to have a personal relationship with a lie, something that does not exist. It is an escape. The closest you will ever get to a relationship with the divine is in relationship with your neighbor, with those who are in your life. If you don't wake up, even that will be lost.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant


This message is part 1 of 4 parts and will continue with "You Are Far More Capable," part 2 of 4; and will follow with "You Are Responsible," part 3 of 4; and conclude with "Come Out Of Hypnosis," part 4 of 4.


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