June 24, 2006
God, etc.
Listening to Esther Hicks, channeling Abraham, always jacks up my vibration a notch or two. She commutes with me regularly, although sometimes her influence is hard to find here at Dakota.
Yesterday, I listened to a tape in which she, channeling Abraham, addressed a religious man -- I transcribed this section, with great effort, I might add, because I found it to be an excellent explanation of God, or at least one that I prefer. Unfortunately, I cannot reproduce Esther/Abraham's delightful inflections in all their glory.
We [Abraham is a clump of nonmaterial beings that takes a bit of getting used to, pronoun-wise. at the very least] are, in no way pushing against religion, at all, because there is a wonderful thing that happens sometimes within religion. Our only discomfort is that anytime anyone looks outside of themselves for guidance, they always get less than when they are looking for it within. And there are many people that look for guidance within religion and find it. You have found guidance there. You have found clarity there. You weren't making the wrong choices.He replies: " I'm confused. Who is God? Who is Jesus? What's Heaven and Hell?"
"God is source energy, and the culmination of all that you are. God expands each time you live something unwanted, and prefer something more. Even if you were the one-celled amoeba in the ocean, God expands in that too.Jesus is a physical human --like you -- who came forth into this environment --like you-- to understand who he is, and how he fits into all of this. And he banged around --like you-- for a long time, also, and then removed himself from the chaos of all that, and went away where he was taught by others to meditate and get inside himself. Where he closed that vibrational gap, and connected with Source in the way Esther is doing here, and in the way that every one of you can too
And he said that to all of you. "The Kingdom of Heaven is within you," It is not that which is outside of you. When he says "Turn the other cheek", he's talking about turning your canoe into the flow, he's talking about not pushing against. In other words, he is not different from that which you are.Heaven is the illusion that physical man has about what it will be like when he no longer has resistance. Heaven is an illusion in the sense that it is not a place, but it is certainly a state of being, and heaven exists right here on earth, or exists here where we are. Heaven is the state of nonresistance, you see, and Hell is the ficton of man's disconnected mind. There is no such thing as Hell.
You knew it! Think about it. Everytime somebody tried to teach you about it. You got your knot in your stomach -- and what was that knot telling you? That knot was telling you that you were activating a vibration about a subject, and your source was not going there. In other words, source says, "There's no such thing, there's no such thing, there's no such thing" , and, as you are trying to teach yourself that there is, you create a crevass between you and you.
And when we said that just now, it felt to us as if you just said, "Hell, yes!"
I am struck by the similarities between Abraham's messages and Carlo Suares' Eight Propositions
"And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation: Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you" (Luke 17:20-21). And this would be the keynote of the New Era. Here are the eight propositions:1. Seek your total individuality. Don't write it down anywhere. Don't give it a name. Any definition of yourself is a deceptive hideout.
2. You will not find your total individuality. It is your total individuality that sees you, that witnesses your doings. It acts in our space-time continuum but is not restricted to it.
3. Your total individuality is your soul. It abides in the indeterminate plurality of universes. Because it is alive, it is evolving. Because it is outside of time, its evolution is only the time that you need to permit it to find you. Because it is multidimensional, it contributes to the composition of an Ecclesia. It is one and innumerable.
4. Your soul will not find you as long as your consciousness is made of the stuff of false evidences created by your mind: as long as you do not feel a sense of suffocation in those space-time false evidences.
5. The death of false evidences is a psychological death, announcer of resurrection. Each false evidence denounced opens a window in the inner space where the measurable dies.
6. This death of the measurable in the inner space is a personal experience. All that is said to you about it will prevent it from occurring. Do not listen to the professionals of any religions.
7. Beyond this death, our infinitely multiple individuality reveals to our present person that we are only one of its multifarious manifestations. We then meet the other manifestations of our soul spread out through history, still present and alive.
8. So this consciousness emanating from our soul integrates its earthly past and also its future. It knows itself continuous, without limits. It is all-consciousness, it penetrates every consciousness, it understands every consciousness, and that understanding is love.
To be politically incorrect for purposes of emphasis -- put that in your pipe and smoke it.
Photo note: It seems that Buddha, like Jesus, had the same idea.
Addendum: Isn't it wonderful that, after all these years, I have finally learned to indent?
Posted by Dakota at June 24, 2006 07:20 AM