It Is A Matter Of Knowing

Ishvara:

Once you've had a direct experience, it remains yours, and you are ready for the next experience, but don't expect it to be as glamorous as the very first experience. You have had many "firsts" in your life, and you know that. The first time you ate chocolate pudding, it may have been exciting. The firsts are exciting, but the seconds aren't exciting. Direct experience is no different. You keep making progress in the mastership of Life, taking steps, doing what is in front of you, being open to new experiences, allowing for greater possibilities, and loving the things around you. The more you can love, be with, appreciate and respect the things around you, the greater is the flow of energy, which increases your frequency, and allows you to have an even greater appreciation of what Life really is. You stop looking at things negatively; you no longer have the vocabulary "it's awful"; you change it to, "What's next?" Life's direction is always what's next. "What are we going to behold now? What are we going to experience now? How much freer, how much lighter, how much more connected, how much more aware can we be?"

Setbacks are illusions of the intellect. The intellect says, "This is a setback; we're moving in reverse; the world is entering the dark ages." Not really. It's just that the fear mongers, those who are afraid, are telling us what needs to happen. It is not happening. It just looks like it is happening because the media say so, the reports say so. If you can find the heart of humanity, you will see how untrue that is. There is nothing to it; it is not real; it is the delusion of those who are trying to stay in control, those who are using fear to try to manipulate what they think are "the masses." Appearances are deceptive, and these supposed setbacks are simply there to wake people up. I just hope people wake up soon.

When you look at the big picture, you realize how ignorance, conditions, superstitious beliefs and concepts have ruled the past, and that when you are fearful you fall back into that superstitious nonsense, but you can't stay there any more. It is short-lived. The cat is out of the bag forever. People have got a taste of liberation and freedom, and after they get over the fear they will be right back to liberation and freedom. That is the progression of Life, the direction in which Life is moving. It is not going backwards. It is going forward, though it can look like reversal. It is not a time to be complacent, because your knowing, your awareness is going to propel this onward. That is why it is so important that you gain clarity and awareness, that you become very much aware of what your knowing is doing for Life. What you can know in yourself, what you experience as the progression of Life through connections and awareness, is going to shape the morphic field for others to tune into, so they begin to know too. That is how it works, and how it has always worked.

Those who propagate fear and separation are like dinosaurs; they are passing away. They are yelling and screaming in their passing, trying to hold a structure in place, but the foundation has already crumbled. A new edifice is being created, and those who support it, those who look at it, are contributing to it, not by doing, but by knowing. Knowing is the most powerful thing in the universe. Knowing is absolute. If you acquire the courage to know, something happens.

Believing, on the other hand, is empty hope. "I believe this is true" does not make it true. You must KNOW it is true, and then it happens. It is the same in every aspect of your life. If you are suffering from a disease, and believe you can get better, you may or may not get better, but if you know you can get better, you will, and the more intensely you know, the faster you will get better. There are degrees of knowing.

Mastership of Life is about developing a body of knowing that becomes present and integrated into every cell of your body. When you hold negative thoughts, the body suffers; it begins to break down. If you have been having negative thoughts, the best thing you can do is forgive yourself, apologize to yourself for doing that, and have some happy thoughts to counter it. That may be difficult for you, but you can allow what-is, embrace what-is, know that the highest good is taking place in spite of what it looks like on the outside, and hold determinedly to that knowing. That is what changes the world; that is what causes evolution to accelerate.

Humanity can stay in the loop of belief and keep hoping, or it can step out of the loop and accelerate through direct knowing, direct experience, through allowing greater possibilities to take place. You claim the miracle for yourself through knowing, and the miracle then becomes ordinary to you. Others will look at it as miraculous, but you will know, "Well, of course, it couldn't be any other way."

Knowing is direct. You are learning about knowing through your experiences moment by moment, and if you didn't know, now you know. Just keep knowing, keep working at it; know that each experience is leading you to the next experience, and that you are always all right; no matter where you are, you are always Life happening. You cannot be wrong; you can only be right. You can become misguided, deceived, distorted, diminished, but that is only on the surface. Your core cannot be diminished. The truth of your being cannot be lost. The essence, the Life Force, the energy that you are, cannot be lessened. It can be added to. It can be put on hold, but you can't put it on hold forever. At some point you will break out again. The mastership of Life is living moment by moment, being the direct experience, connecting with the things around you. Try it.

Instead of being angry or upset with things, try to love things. As you walk by a plant, appreciate it. As you walk by a person, appreciate the person. Yes, some people are hard to appreciate, but if you hate them, you empower them; if you love them, you leave them alone. It is amazing. Love is unconditional acceptance of what-is. If you practice acceptance, you add to the authentic hope of the world, you shine light on greater possibilities. That is important.

Trying to change the world is difficult, because for every action you take, it seems someone else is doing something to counter it. You can jump ahead of the game by Knowing. What you know, will take place, and will override what people are doing or not doing. The knowing is direct, into the heart of Life. Connection brings about transformation and change.

Allow for the possibility, in each moment. Practice it; do the best you can with it; that is all Life asks: do the best you can with it. It is not a matter of success or failure. It is a matter of knowing, and the more you know, the more you master Life; the more direct the experience, the more connections take place; the more awareness, the greater the increase in frequency, which in turn allows for even greater awareness, moment by moment.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

This is the conclusion of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on March 13, 2005. - TG.

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