On The Verge Of A Greater Possibility


Ishvara:

I see the obstacles that are established from the past, because past awakenings have created precedents and expectations: "This is the way it is." It is hard for the human to understand that "That's the way it was" does not necessarily mean "That's the way it is now." The now is a new moment.

Those individuals who awoke to the Natural State did their job in bringing humanity to the next level. They knew full well that they would not be able to usher humanity beyond the next level; instead, they were at that place, that time, that moment of existence where humanity was, with what was possible then. In the Natural State, there is an inherent awareness of what is needed, what will work, and it defies convention, it defies system, it defies the past. So one is moved to an arena of aloneness to become a beacon that calls to those who resonate, those who can hear and participate. Ever so slowly, more and more individuals get it, realize it, embrace it, move with it, grow with it, and evolve. And they find themselves at a new level of existence. They still live in the world, interfacing with the system, yet they are beyond the system. They see beyond the controls. They see through the attempts to manipulate and force, to foster beliefs that serve the system.

Each awakening brings humanity to a new level, and in each awakening the work is to dismiss the past. It really is that. One dismisses the expectations, the beliefs, and the prophecies, for the prophecies are fulfilled in the awakening.

Individuals who have come into the Natural State are leaders; they are masters. They go by many names, but the name is not the person. The name is something from the outside that attempts to describe; it is placed by others. It is what the intellect does with the situation. For in actuality, there is no label in the Natural State. There is no title. There is a tradition of sorts: the one who is the highest is the servant of all. When you assist others in waking up, you are their servant. You baby them, you pamper them, you encourage them, you push them. You can be called a "mother."

This is something you need to contemplate, because there are rampant superstitions and delusions in the intellect: expectations, beliefs and superstitious nonsense about awakening, all of which foster more separation. On the other hand, you can realize that of yourself you can do nothing. That is very humbling, because the ego mind says, "Oh, I can do it myself. I know. I can get there on my own power; I don't need any assistance." That is the delusion of humanity. Humanity gets nowhere without a leader, without something that instigates the next step. It has always been that way, because the nature of the brain locks into the system as-it-is, gets caught up and establishes itself in "This is the way it is," and try as you will, the intellect can't quite leap beyond that. The intellect gets inspired; it gets hope, yet it needs the push, the shock, the instigation.

The brain grows and changes by example, by seeing. An infant watches and hears, taking in information. The brain watches too. It doesn't know what to make of the new information brought by an awakening, but it files it away.

I recently read in a scientific journal that one of latest discoveries in neuro-science is that each cell knows. I have been saying this for a long time, but now I have read it in a science article. Scientists call it the "Clinton cell." One cell recognizes Bill Clinton's face, no matter how it appears, in all different scenarios. There is one cell in the brain that recognizes his face. Scientists used to believe that many cells were involved in such recognition, but recent studies indicate that there is one cell that sees, that knows.

Now, if one cell knows that much, imagine what your body knows, what you know. If one cells knows a particular face, and another cell knows another face, then you most likely have cells that know what happened to you in the past, cells that are holding on to what happened in the past, cells that feel lonely and separate, cells that are ignorant, cells that are scared out of their wits, but also cells that are super-intelligent, cells that are trying to break free. You are an enigma of cells in conflict, and so is every human being.

If you love your cells, they can remember their perfection. If you are having pain in a part of your body, you can love those cells, and send energy to them. You don't love them in order to achieve a result. You love the cells as they are, with patience, and without expectation--and that can allow them to remember the perfection which existed before they became injured or diseased.

We are on the verge of a greater possibility. The main ingredient is surrender, because your cells are reluctant to go with a higher truth. It is as if the cell says, "I've been doing this for a long time. Why should I change?" Yet if you surrender what you believe, what you have come to expect, what you have become accustomed to, the cells can experience a new possibility.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

This is the continuation of a message I have transcribed and edited from a talk Ishvara gave on May 15, 2005. - TG.

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