The Still Small Voice

Spirit’s voice—the still small voice, is as loud as my willingness to listen. I hear it, each time I am able to lay the ego aside; and laying the ego aside, spirit’s voice is all that remains. I know that the ego is an illusion, an error a mistaken use of mind, that it dictates endless prescriptions for avoiding catastrophic outcomes. While spirit, perfectly aware of the same situation, does not bother to analyze it at all. Spirit knows the seeming situation is an error, a mistaken use of mind and reminds me that any way I handle error results in nothing; that there is only one error and one choice, to go within and chose again. Spirit reminds me that the more complicated the situation seems to become, the harder it is to recognize its nothingness.

Healing

Healing is the result of allowing the mind to use the body solely for communication. This is natural and is mind’s function - it heals by making whole. Allowing mind to be limited or arrested by the body, is to mistake cause and effect. A mind that has allowed itself to be blocked in its purpose of communication and extension, has allowed itself to be vulnerable to attack, because it has turned against itself.

 

The removal of blocks, then, is the only way to guarantee help and healing. Perceiving the body as a separate entity cannot but foster illness, because it is not true. The body is meant to be used as a medium of communication and loses its usefulness if it is used for anything else. To communicate is to join. Allowing my body and mind to attack is to separate. To conceive the body as a means of attack and to believe that joy—which is joining and communion, could possibly result, is a mistake.

 

Joy is unified purpose—one single purpose, one God, one family, everyone and everything all children of the one Source. Of course the ego goes nuts at this idea. Just look around you, it says, how can you say that? But what the ego shows me are illusions and the only freedom from illusions is breathing into them, going within--to mind, giving them over and not taking them so seriously.

Thru, Not In

Mind, which is who and what I am as a spiritual being, transcends the body. Mind works through the body but not in it. Mind cannot be made physical, but it can be made manifest through the physical. So the New Testament idea that ‘the word (or thought) was made flesh’ is a mistake.

 

If the mind believes the body is its goal, it will distort its perception of the body, block its own extension beyond it to communicate with itself in other seemingly separated bodies, which is its function and natural tendency, and induce illness by fostering separation.

 

The purpose of learning is to lead beyond the body to the re-establishment of the power of the mind in and thru it. This can be accomplished only if the mind extends to other minds and does not arrest itself in its extension. Allowing the mind to use the body only for its extension through communication, becomes a beautiful lesson in communion, which has value until communion is. This is spirit’s way of making unlimited what I have made limited.

 

In the body of another, I can see the use to which I have put mine. Seeing others as only bodies, belittles them and me. Spirit interprets the body only as a means of communication, a link between Itself, Its children and Its children with one another, enabling each seemingly separate part of It to join with every other seemingly separated part of it to make contributions to a world that works for everyone and everything in it.

Experienced, Not Explained

The truth of our reality as spiritual beings having earthly experiences can only be experienced. It cannot be described and in cannot be explained, even tho I keep trying to do that in these blogs and elsewhere. The ego’s world, even with the best of everything—health, wealth and happiness can add nothing to who we really are already – without further effort - children of God. But the ego’s world can blind us to spirit when we identify with it.

 

It is not possible to identify with the ego world and know our reality. Only one is true. Our experience of our reality as spirit--grace, unconditional love, deep calm, certainty and knowingness saves us, not from ourSelves but from our illusions of ourSelves. Our joy in the ego’s world, even with the best of everything—health, wealth and happiness is fleeting, leaving us with an ‘is that all there is?’ feeling, because nothing but the realization of our reality is worthy of us.

 

This is not to suggest we renounce life and go live in a monetary. We believe we are here in the ego’s world and will go on seeking the best of it for ourselves and everyone and everything else. But it is to suggest that we seek our truth and reality first, understanding that the whole power of ourSelves lies in all of us and not in anyone of us alone. Our function as spiritual beings first, is to work together, because apart from each other we cannot function at all.

 

Just as the truth of our reality as spiritual beings having earthly experiences can only be experienced, not described nor explained, so our reality as one child of one father/mother must be experienced to be known. We’ve all had a taste of this in group activities and teams when somehow, miraculously, it all comes together and we accomplish something grand, something none of us could have accomplished alone.

We Are Never Alone

“We are never alone. We are not isolated fragments of creation, but part of one great Whole. We may always turn to the greater Whole and accept more and more of Its good, abundance and right action of which we have been unknowingly depriving ourselves.

 

“In using our thought, the function of our minds, we need always remember that it is not our mind that we use. Rather, it the individualization within us of the One Mind that we use at the level of our awareness of It.

 

“We attract to ourselves experiences corresponding to the nature of our thought.” Excerpt from A New Design for Living by Ernest Holmes.

Middle Men

 The ego, myself, always speaks first and is wrong. It says things like: “When the pain stops, you’ll feel better,” or “when you get the new house, you’ll be happy,” or “if it doesn’t rain, then it’ll be a great day.” All conditional, all based on the outside-in thinking and believing, all middle men, as if my experience depends on them. I don’t need these or any other middle men. I can go directly to awareness of mySelf.

 

I can go. Do I? Not often enough. I get bogged down in addressing the middle men – taking care of the pain, getting the new house, hoping and praying it won’t rain. My attention is drawn away from mySelf which is the ego’s goal. If I’m busy fing around with the ego’s middle men, feeling alone and victimized, I’m not with mySelf and my reality as a spiritual being having an earthly experience.

 

I want to eliminate the middle men. I’m sick and tired of buying retail. I want to go direct to the supplier, the manufacturer, the Source. And I can! How cool is that? I can and you can! We can know we’re dealing with middle men, but not alone and not as victims.

 

When we hear the ego and experience its middle men, we can understand what’s happening, agree that I’ll feel better when the pain stops, or whatever, breath into it, give it over to spirit and with spirit, take whatever action spirit—that deep inner knowing and intuition, suggest. Often no action other than releasing and giving over is needed. Trusting the Source, releasing the blocks—the middle men, giving them over and experiencing mySelf instead of myself is so good and works so well! I want to do it more often!

Namaste

Consistent experiences of spirit’s blessings cannot be forced upon me, but come when they are all I want. And to want only that I need help. Yes it’s a choice, and I have the capacity to choose, but the ego’s nightmare illusion is so strong and I am so invested in it, I need to feel the love of God supporting me to make the best choice. “Who with the love of God supporting them would choose madness and murder?” No one. Certainly not me and not you. The difficulty is tho the love of God is always there and always supporting us, we don’t feel it. And not feeling it, not knowing we are spirit first, we choose madness and murder.

 

Interesting phrase that – “The love of God.” It goes two ways, God loving me and me loving God….

 

With the love of God supporting me I can know that when I meet anyone it is a holy encounter. As I see you is how I see myself. As I treat you is how I treat myself. As I think of you is how I think of myself. Every encounter with you and everyone and everything is an opportunity to experience myself or mySelf.

 

The purpose of life is to ‘Know Thyself’. There is nothing else to seek. Everything else is illusion. We are looking for the Self we all share and think we have lost. And we are looking in the wrong places. The ego’s motto is: ‘Seek but do not find.’ The ego has us look only at ourselves. But that is not enough. If I look only at myself, I will not find mySelf for mySelf is in everyone and everything. Until I allow the love of God to uphold me and see It in, thru and around me, I will feel lack and limitation, pain, anger and frustration.

 

Namaste – the God in me salutes the God in you!