Life Really Is Up To You


Ishvara:

We live in a world of abundance, but the abundance is out of balance. A few have everything; many have almost nothing. The few may not want to share, but for this world to continue its existence, greed, selfishness, and separateness must come to an end. Humans need to be inspired to share, through connection, through awareness of a greater possibility. I daresay that if this lesson is not learned, those few that "have" will become have-nots, because the planet cannot continue to sustain greed and selfishness. The planet is alive; it is not a dead, inert orb, but an organism of Life and intelligence. Just as your body will not sustain an imbalance for long; neither will the world. As long as imbalance exists, there will be disease, life will be dysfunctional, and if that is not corrected, there will be death.

Seeing this, you can recognize the importance of awakening to The New Consciousness. You can recognize the importance of accepting a new operating system, a new way of seeing the world, a new way of being in the world. In recognizing this, you leave behind the past; you forgive the mistakes. Forgiveness is the way, because as long as people seek revenge, there will be death, and there will be no end to it. Revenge poisons the brain, destroys the intellect, to the point where all one can see is retaliation, getting even. It is very selfish and separative.

Forgiveness begins in yourself. You forgive yourself for all the experiences of limitation and selfishness, for all destructive tendencies and patterns. You develop the whole arena of forgiveness within yourself. You chalk everything up to a learning experience, to learning how energy works, and when you do that you quickly realize there are certain things you don't need to do again. You apply the experiences of the past to the present. What you have gleaned from Life is your teacher; it has taught you how things worked. It has revealed to you greater possibilities, and hopefully has revealed to you that spark of you that knows, that can, at times, see through the dilemmas of existence and recognize that there really is more to you than you realize.

There are moments when you know that you are very capable. There are moments when you know that you are unselfish. There are moments when you know that you truly care for the world, for humanity. There are moments when you know that connection is the only way to survive. Those are moments of greater awareness and transcendence.

There are many problems in the world, but I realized long ago that these problems cannot be solved at the level of the problems. Somehow, some way, there must be a transcendence. You must move to a bigger place, a more connected, transcendent awareness, where you realize greater possibilities. If you try to solve the problem at the level of the problem, you just create more problems. If you try to make somebody do the right thing, they feel compelled to make you do the right thing, and then you feel compelled to make them do the right thing. This applies to war: you bomb them, they bomb you; you bomb them again, and then they bomb you again. Finally, you bomb, and there is nothing more to bomb; it is the end. That is the height of ignorance and foolishness. Retaliation and revenge don't work.

At some point, one lays down the weapons of destruction--whatever they might be. Mostly they are religious beliefs and concepts. When you look to see what underlies the conflict in the world, you discover that much of it is belief: "You must believe this way, or else. My religion is right, yours is wrong. In order for there to be peace, you must abandon your religion and embrace mine, and if you don't, I have weapons to prove that yours is wrong." It has been an age-old battle, with each nation praying to their "God" to wipe out the other nation. What's a God to do? Nothing happens, except destruction.

So you move beyond that arena. You recognize it doesn't work. The New Consciousness shows that the old operating system is dilapidated, destructive, virus-ridden, full of worms, and there is no way it can ever work. The change happens now. If you resonate with this, you know what needs to be done. If you resonate with this, you are inspired with hope for a greater possibility for yourself and for the rest of humanity.

You probably won't recognize the particulars. Those come in the moment. When one lives through inspiration, when one lives with this new operating system, this new way of seeing, things are very spontaneous; you see them in the moment: "Now, it is time to do this. . . Now, it is time to do that." It bypasses the intellect to a great extent, because the intellect is clinging to the old system, but in time even your intellect accepts the new operating system, because it recognizes the benefit of connection, higher awareness, transcendence, and the ability to flow with greater information, accessing higher intelligence and greater possibilities. You are capable of it. It is within you. It is possible. It is up to you. Life is really up to you.

There is no arm twisting here; there is no song and dance to convince you. It really is up to you. If you resonate with this truth, you are already a part of The New Consciousness. You are proceeding to install the new operating system, a way of being in the world where you see things in connection, where you always see greater possibilities for any situation, where you transcend limitations of beliefs and concepts "about" something outside, and you embrace what is inside. You embrace what you see is possible in the moment.

The only path in Life is the path of allowing, and it takes place in presence; it is a thing of the moment. It is spontaneous, yet resides in a reservoir of information, of intelligence, of absolute knowing, seeing the bigger picture, and it has the wisdom to implement each step in each moment. That is who you are: a manifestation of Life, of intelligence itself, living beyond separation, living as a unique expression of a greater possibility of Life, 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 June 12, 2005. - TG.

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A New Operating System


Ishvara:

No one knows how many individuals it takes to swing the balance to The New Consciousness. It could be hundreds; it could be one. You don't know. All you know is what is in front of you, this step, this possibility that is accessible to you. All you have to do is to allow that it is possible.

You have allowed that religions were right, that philosophies were right, that your parents were right, that governments, systems and structures were right. You already know how to allow. What if you allow that there is something within you that is indestructible, that is all-knowing, that is totally connected with all of Life, intelligence itself, happening moment by moment, disseminating information that provides for the next step, the next level of awareness?

It is an immense thing that is happening, yet so invisible to most humans: intelligence birthing itself right into this arena, bringing more information, creating vehicles of expression of a higher intelligence, a greater connected possibility. It cannot be underestimated. It cannot be stopped. It is happening now. Faster or slower, it continues.

If you resonate with this, if you understand even in the smallest way what I am speaking about, you are part of The New Consciousness. You are embodying a higher intelligence, becoming a vehicle of a greater expression of information, seeing that you count, that you have value, that you are an important part of the synergy of Life, that you cannot be discredited, that you have a place, a function, a purpose. You are not pigeonholed. You are not contained or controlled.

Infinite intelligence relies on infinite expression. It cannot be limited in that expression; it needs a free rein, with open, connected, and transcendent possibilities. The human intellect is controlled and enslaved by consensus reality. Consensus reality is its programming. You can't fault the intellect for this, just as you cannot become angry with your computer over the fact that its programs are outdated. You can yell and curse at your computer, throw things at it, but that won't make it any better. The only thing you can do is change the program, change the operating system. That is what's necessary for humanity right now: to change the operating system.

Humans have been running on an old operating system. The old operating system includes religions, spiritual disciplines and traditions, governments, systems, beliefs, and concepts--all that conditioning, all of that hypnosis, all of that stuff that is not working. It is not the operating system's fault; it simply is outdated. The New Consciousness is the new operating system--a system that has lots of additions to it. It is faster, streamlined, has no waste, no redundancies, and it never crashes. You have the new system installed already. You can already move into this awareness because you are designed to do so, because you are a part of a great movement, The New Consciousness of Life becoming possible now. You just have to turn it on.

The intellect says: "Where's the start button? Let's start it now." As you resonate with this, the buttons are pushed, the new system begins to function, and you awaken each morning seeing a new world. You are not escaping, you are not ignoring. You understand the way the world is, how it has been, how it continues to be because of the old programming, but the new program transcends the old. Anything of value of the past will be used in the new program, so you are not abandoning your past experiences, you are actually enhancing them.

You have had many experiences in your life that don't seem to fit. Against the backdrop of the conditional, hypnotic processes, you've had experiences that seem abnormal, so you become a walking question mark: "What was that about?" Everyone at some point in their life has had a moment of a greater realization, the "Aha!". Often those moments are discounted, but they are Life trying to wake up; they are like a kick-start. If you are not paying sufficient attention, if you are distracted by the outside, or if you are adhering to a religious belief or concept, the kick-start is ineffective. It is mislabeled. You think, "I had an experience. It must be God calling me. I must join a religious organization, follow a religious discipline." So you join a religious organization, and the organization tells you: "Yes, God called you, now pay your money, support this system, give everything you have to this dinosaur, and when you die, you can go to heaven." Each religion has its own enticement to get you to sign on the dotted line, to give up your personal power, to give your power to the outside. When you grow tired of that, when you see through that game, you are primed for awakening. When enough humans see through that game, the world will change practically overnight.

The intellect says: "It will take a long time for people to change their mind." Yet you must realize that people's minds are part of consensus-reality belief. They adhere to what is there, which is the old operating system. It is like the computer that has no choice about which system it is running; it just runs the one that is activated. The shift can be as simple as changing the operating system for humanity. That is The New Consciousness. The New Consciousness is a new operating system, a new way of seeing Life from presence, a Life that is free of expectations, attachments, beliefs and concepts about something on the outside, a Life that knows the truth is within, that all possibilities are inherent within the human already. There is already enough genetic material, if it is activated, to create a whole new person. You have enough brain capacity to house more information, to resonate to more direct input of intelligence. You already have within you that possibility. You allow for it; you allow that it is possible.

Written and transcribed by Terry Grant

This is a continuation of a talk Ishvara gave on June 12, 2005. I have transcribed and edited his words. - TG.

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