Life Matters - E.C.Nemeth (most inspirational books of all time .txt) 📗

experience the divinity of totality simultaneously?
Is it not plain that The Created, The One, saw in its creation the individual’s separation from The Creator? The One fragmented into infinite pieces, each bestowed with awareness, each inviolate. But what is that but the demented denying the nose to spite the face. Separation is The One pointing at Itself saying, “this is not me” - It is not true and thinking it is does not make it so. The One is God experienced.
Now consider further, is your experience divine? If it is not, why not? What would make your experience more divine? Be careful what you answer, however, for unless you know you are the swan you will believe you are an ugly duckling. If you think you are the ugly duckling you will not see the gifts being bestowed upon the swan. If you are a duck you are powerless. You neither know yourself within or without.
To be the swan requires no effort, no doing. That is what you are. The effort is in maintaining a false image of yourself. That requires tremendous energy and intense concentration. You pour yourself into the mold you have cast for yourself and you force it to fit. It is a habit that almost all of the human species is addicted to at this point in history. You teach it to your young. You demonstrate it to all who encounter you. You enforce it in many different ways and reinforce it in many more. Make no mistake, it is a highly cooperative venture. The collective belief that we are ugly ducklings is a collective agreement that each individual understands and abides by. Imagine the many times the true nature of another shone through the veil of illusion, only to be turned aside and ignored. The swan is magnificent! To be the swan comes effortlessly. What you are cannot be undone. It will make itself known for it already is.
Finally, consider the mind-boggling potential of becoming the swan! Imagine what could be accomplished, the love encountered, the peace embodied by knowing with certainty your heritage, your power and your Source.
God’s plan is perfect.
The divergent convergence
Notice that The Chart employs larger font and all caps for the single word, All. This is because All is the Source of any and all realities. Let it be known, the absolute truth cannot be expressed in words, or expressed at all for that matter - the truth is felt and known in totality and with perfect certainty. Otherwise, it is not truth in the absolute sense. Absolute truth is experience perfected and seen with perfect clarity. The ultimate reality is that All is All there is, was or will ever be. There is nothing else. So we must be of that ilk as is everything else; we are all reflections of the facets of God, which are infinite.
The use of the plural is of course the illusion since there is only One. And that One is All. Yet, even the word “all” itself is acknowledging the existence of the many. But the focus here is not the concept but the context. The concept is the many while the context is the One. So the word holds true from within and without the illusion.
The focus of the Chart is from within the illusion looking outward. There are these observable pre-phenomena traces or the nodes of the matrix of life or the archetypes under girding reality or a certain pre-ordained order or natural flow or divine process that lies below the manifest world. These ideas or forces arrange reality to accommodate the perceiver. However, they also arrange reality to follow along a path of least resistance or within the parameters of a gray area or in a range of probabilities that has an underlying purpose or at least a favored inclination.
There is a natural evolution of experience in terms of clarity and there is a logical progression of concepts or ideas that lead to comprehension. When the two are ready to merge then certainty has come. In that moment a lifetime can be spent, or many lifetimes, until it is understood that there has always only been this moment. That single moment spread itself through history like a repeating echo of an uttered absurdity. The One contemplated time for an instant. We have been lost there ever since, stuck in a dream, ripped from our Source, lost and forgotten.
Once created, what does one do? There are many avenues of experience to choose from. And if a certain experience is not satisfactory another experience can be chosen at will. The only requirement is the awareness of the source of one’s will. It is not easy. They say nothing worth having is worth having for free. It takes effort, it takes willingness, it takes courage. It takes forgiveness. It takes Love.
Once the Source of all will is acknowledged, however, experience also changes and the choice of experience alters in direct response. This is to highlight the most important aspect of this understanding, namely: until the Source of the individual's will is acknowledged, the individual does not know its own will. That means that the individual does not understand what it is, where it came from, what it is doing here, what is happening to it, what it needs or what it wants. In such a state, unhappiness, confusion, misery, fear and pain remain the outcome of all choices. Oddly, they may not be perceived as such and the experience can be confused with a transient sort of pleasure or comfort or safety or security or peace or whatever that comes and goes in rhythms and cycles. Although these rhythms are self-generated by feelings of guilt and the subconscious need to blame, the source of these events is externalized. If the source of events is externalized then it will inevitably seem like there is a will, far more potent than the little self, opposed to the individual's will.
But an acknowledgement of the true Source and only Will radically alters perception. Guidance is continuous and can be relied on to provide the best experience for the good of the individual's growth. Always the portents clear the way, removing obstacles, leading toward abundance. The quiet voice within calmly and surely shows the path forward where enlightenment and the full release of maya, of the illusion, awaits. All are naturally forgiven so that the individual can at last take responsibility for the world it thought it saw. Only then can the individual forgive itself and look upon its true creations that never left their Source. The invulnerability of the truly innocent becomes the normal attitude, and the individual is certain about its place in the world of form and knows with certainty its true purpose.
The purpose, of course, is to learn how to get out of here for good!
To do so we must all unite, as we in fact always are.
United we stand, and we cannot be divided.
Experience evolves but it also mutates, taking evolutionary divergences lasting minutes or decades. These divergences can then evolve further until it finds another interesting divergence. It is much like the branches of a tree. They jut out in every direction, each finding its own space, yet they always tend upward. All individual experiences, despite evolutionary divergences, ultimately converge at a single experience. That is the experience of union with The Creator. For union with The Source of Love, The Author of Life, is the ultimate self-realization. Only then can the individual claim the power of The Source as emanating from within the Self and know with perfect certainty that it is so.
Reflected as projected
The universe and everything in it is constantly in motion. Yet there cannot be motion between two points. Understand, the moment duality became manifest it manifest within a context. That context was the unity of all things, all things being the same in truth. So the moment of creation was a frozen instant containing all things already manifest.
How can a sequence of events each containing a different pattern of all things standing in relationship to one another be made manifest at the same time? That is a question better answered in the chapter pertaining to the line of truth and the idea of limitations as a means to contain experience. It will not be answered in the chapter involving time, the line of karma since there the linearity of time and its immutability is the theme. At this level, the moment of creation, time is not yet a perceived reality, it is not yet manifest.
This is the moment of the great projection. It is when The One considered what it would be like without a Creator and to be the Author of All That Is. It is when The One fantasized about being God. Yet without The Source of All Thought, the omnipotence, the omniscience, the perfection, the certainty, the absolute love, The One was at a loss how to proceed. In that moment fear was born, for without the parent, the newborn is in great peril. If the author of All that Is does not know then there must be that which represents the knowing that had to be present in order to create All There Is. The One, in its daydream, had no choice but to project the knowingness of the Parent outward onto the stage of experience. The dilemma of not knowing its own creation, required The One to perceive a universe of mystery and miracles. In this reality The One is tiny and insignificant because the universe represents The Creator that is being ignored.
The answer to the question posed by The One, “What if I was The Creator?”, was not evident until The One was already immersed in the Illusion. There the experience answered the question with, “There would be chaos, suffering and death.” And that was the end of the fearful experience. In joy The One awoke to its true reality and praised the name of All, The Source of The One’s Life.
We are the reflections of this projection. We are the lesson The One learned in its daydream. We are prize knowings The One cherishes deeply. We are gifts of God to the Child of Light. It is a position of great distinction. We are held in very high regard in heaven, where the truth about us is held steadfastly awaiting our return, which in fact has already happened.
A projection, in the sense meant above, is an unwanted and denied portion of the self that is externalized in a process that requires the special attributes of a split mind. The split in the mind is a border or wall that divides the mind into partitions, where each partition can be independent and alone. Each partition is an individual, separate from every other partition. As the self divests itself of more and more undesirable characteristics the self’s partition is partitioned again and again. Projection, therefore, is a device to carve up the attributes of The One and deny each one in turn, until all that’s left is a pitiful and powerless puppet of an unknown will.
The universe is those portions of The Self that the individual has denied. When this is reflected back to the little self from the outside world it becomes proof of the insignificance of the individual. Thus reinforced, projection becomes legitimately, selectively and conveniently forgotten as the process that spawned its own proof in the reflection of the manifest world.
Me and You
Notice that all of the sub-headings in this chapter are dualistic in nature. That is appropriate in light of this chapter being the line of doing. Yet one must be before one can do. That is the proper context of this concept, as it is for every other concept as well. And authorship