AWARENESS AND PERCEPTION 3

p. 78-83

I know I get still hung up a little on labels like clairvoyance, clairaudience, etc.
What I have to realize is my resistance is all about fear and not-enoughness. 
Why would I be frightened about being offered a spiritual gift? All I can think of is at my mind is saying, “Oh, that’s not for me.” “I don’t know if I could handle that.”

What would it take to say and really believe, “I am worthy of all the gifts, knowledge and wisdom that God has to offer his child?”

****
To “lighten the load” a bit, I have decided, for now, to say, “I am willing to stretch; I am willing to grow; I am open to the gifts you offer me, and I pray that I use them well.” None of us know what form the gifts will take and so it is counterproductive to become fixated on one thing or another.

Just as a for instance up until a year or so ago I would never have considered writing music. It was not until a teacher of mine “pushed “ me into it that I discovered I could do what I thought was impossible or at least improbable.  
The creativity was always there. I never gave myself the chance to acknowledge it.

************
Because we are not alone in our efforts, this work is also about the raising of group consciousness. As the book spoke of this, I could not help but be reminded of “The Hundredth Monkey” metaphor, that once the vibration or cooperation with grace reaches  certain level it will snowball and be virtually unstoppable.

It is certainly OK to acknowledge our fear, our reluctance or resistance. We might not be dragging our feet consciously, but we all have some ego holding onto the status quo. The object here is not to get into a fight with my resistance, simply recognize it is there and then get back to my willingness and intention.

“So get this, everybody. It’s time to quit the battle. And we can tell you this: To engage with the ego in a battle over rule always means that you are engaging in the ego’s wish to support it in its strength. So we will do this with you now:
“I am now aligning to the reality that as I move forward on my journey, my experience will change and my experience of myself in manifestation will bring me to those I need to know to support me in my journey. And that I am bringing with me all that I need by way of love, by way of support, and by way of reason to know fully that I am not in agreement with any rules that state that I am in my limitation. I am free of limitation. I am knowing myself as free. And I am aligning now to my willingness to experience myself as the one who is in alignment with his freedom. Word I am Word through this intention. Word I am Word.”
***********

parable from Richard Bach’s Illusions

Once there lived a village of creatures along the bottom of a great crystal river. 

The current of the river swept silently over them all - young and old, rich and poor, good and evil, the current going its own way, knowing only its own crystal self. 

Each creature in its own manner clung tightly to the twigs and rocks at the river bottom, for clinging was their way of life, and resisting the current what each had learned from birth. 

But one creature said at last, 'I am tired of clinging. Though I cannot see it with my eyes, I trust that the current knows where it is going. I shall let go, and let it take me where it will. Clinging, I shall die of boredom.' 

The other creatures laughed and said, 'Fool! Let go, and that current you worship will throw you tumbled and smashed across the rocks, and you shall die quicker than boredom!' 

But the one heeded them not, and taking a breath did let go, and at once was tumbled and smashed by the current across the rocks. 

Yet in time, as the creature refused to cling again, the current lifted him free from the bottom, and he was bruised and hurt no more. 

And the creatures downstream, to whom he was a stranger, cried, 'See a miracle! A creature like ourselves, yet he flies! See the Messiah, come to save us all!' 

And the one carried in the current said, 'I am no more Messiah than you. The river delights to lift us free, if only we dare let go. Our true work is this voyage, this adventure.' 

But they cried the more, 'Saviour!' all the while clinging to the rocks, and when they looked again he was gone, and they were left alone making legends of a Saviour. 




See ya!

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

DOMINION OF LOVE 5

PERHAPS I AM BEING VERY LAZY THIS WEEK, BUT i was touched by this lesson and how it approached the material in our Sunday class from a different direction. The Dynamics of Giving and Receiving from Ram Dass//Posted March 10, 2017 What yogis begin to do is to change their way of thinking in order to look at the universe differently. In order to do this, there is a period of time where they must pull back from the drama in order to be able to see it. It’s like a moratorium, it’s a time when you stand back, like you go on a vacation. It’s actually extremely hard work by the way, very exacting and very, very difficult work. Now when most of us think of yogis, we think of somebody sitting like a famous yogi, like Milarepa, sitting up in a cave in the mountains, cross-legged and naked. There was snow, and ants were eating him, and the only food he took was nettle soup, and he ate it for so long he developed a green nettle fur all over him. But he was busy freeing himself fr...
Read more

THE ANSWER 11 and DOMINION IN LOVE 1

This is just beautiful and says it all: “Why was I born? That is the next question. You were born to come into yourselves as knowing yourselves as loved, and as conscious active participants in your creation. You were born to stand in your knowing, to accept yourself as loved, and to see your fellows in their own perfection. You were born to create wonder, to live a life of splendor and of joy. You were created to come into your own knowing in the Son-ship of your own divinity and to claim it in full experience. You were born to say, “I am Word,” in whatever language you choose, in whatever vocabulary is truthful to you. You were chosen, you are choosing, all are. “I am Word through all that I see before me.” We are choosing you today to call to yourselves those things you need to move forward on this journey. Imagine yourself, right now, standing in a room. It is a gateway room. It is a room that leads you to a new room that has never been seen before, that has never bee...
Read more

DOMINION OF LOVE 5

A brief review of the past that is pertinent to the present.   “Paul is asking, “Where is the Christ in me? How do I identify this part of me that you speak of?” And we will tell you now. The Christ within you is a frequency that is aligned within the heart center and it glows like a flame and it brings to it that vibration and frequency that co-resonates with it. And that which it brings to co-resonance is the Creator. If you understand that your light is a piece of the great light, then you have the beginning of the understanding of your Christed Self. If you understand that this light, in its blooming, in its flame, in its action, is the action of the Christ within man, you have a deeper understanding. If you begin to understand that the action of this Christ, once and for all, is to become realized as man in completeness, then you have the mystery of the Christ revealed to you. And the mystery of the Christ, and how it shall be revealed, will be the causation of the action...
Read more