September 29th, 2009
Before we purchased our woodstove Del prepared a huge stack of wood to take us through the winter. Our original intent was to purchase a stove that took 18 inch logs. However, when we were unable to find that size we ended up with a smaller stove that takes only 16 inch logs.
This meant that if we wanted to use them correctly every single log had to have 2 inches cut off. We had a few choices. Ignore the problem and let the logs rot out in the yard, or face the problem and cut off those two inches.
We choose what often appears to be the harder path. Del re-cut every log so that it can be burned this winter.
This is a choice we all can make about assets that we have that don’t quite work in our lives. Instead of letting them rot away or be buried within ourselves why not do what needs to be done to make them usable.
Often those assets, gifts, and talents are buried beneath the trash of useless perceptions; perceptions that possibly once helped us in our lives, but no longer do.
Last weekend Del and I got to ride in a parade – in a garbage truck. Del rode in the cab with Mike, and Mesa and I sat on the back, throwing candy and tee shirts at the crowd. People laughed at Mesa and me sitting on the back of a garbage truck. Who wants to think about the yucky garbage?
But what if we didn’t have garbage trucks? What if we just collected garbage in our house and yards and lived with it?
We all know that we must weekly toss the current trash and periodically de-clutter our homes in order to live happily, but what about the trash in our minds? How often do we examine what we believe to be real, and question if it is true?
This questioning is in two parts. First we ask ourselves if it is true in small r reality. We question if it is true within our daily context of life or are we seeing it from a missed or false perception.
For example, here are some beliefs we all have tucked away somewhere. Is it true that you are not loved, is it true that you have never been happy, and is it true that you are not taken care of?
When you tell the truth to yourself you will notice that there is always evidence that you are loved no matter how small that evidence may seem to you; it is true that something has made you smile, and it is true that you are taken care of beginning with the air that is provided for you to breath.
The second part of this questioning is to ask if it is True. Is it True within the big R Reality? Is it True based on the facts of an omnipresent intelligence of Good?
As you tell the truth you will notice many used assets and many trash perceptions. If it is not true or True then let’s get down to the necessary tasks of readjusting our perception or throwing them out in the trash.
Choosing the perception that chopping and trashing are two actions that set us free from the tiny perception disease that we have caught from the worldview, than let’s get to it.
I have one more symbol for you. We are building a deck for our home, which will then have two doors that open onto it from my office and from our bedroom. It’s been a dream of ours and we have been gifted with the opportunity to do it.
However, even with a gift of opportunity it still takes action to build this deck. Del and John are busy building, and I am busy shoveling the stones under and around the deck. All of it is hard work. It’s our choice once again to choose our perception of the gift and either to find delight in the result or complain about the work.
Chore or delight, it’s our choice of perception in all that we do whether it is recovering and repairing unused assets, throwing out the trash, or doing the work necessary to have what we want. I choose delight. Why not join me and we can walk on the happiness side of life together, listening and following the Angel Ideas that guide us safely back to Truth.
“There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.” Buddha
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September 17th, 2009
Once I asked a seagull, “How do you do that?”
I was walking along the beach near Delmar, California and a seagull flew by. It stopped in front of me, hovered, and then flew on. I thought that was so cool that I called out to him, “Hey, how do you do that?”
Its answer was to turn around, head back to me, and hover over my head. I watched for a long time and when I said, “Thank you for showing me how you do that” it flew away.
In our group called The Shift® Insiders I am always saying to them, “Ask me ‘how do you do that?’” I am thinking that if they see that I am already doing something they want to learn, then instead of needing to figure out the “how” for themselves I would be delighted to eliminate that learning curve and simply show them.
Walking again, this time in a neighborhood in Ohio, and holding a wide angle vision as I walked, I realized that I don’t directly ask, “How do you do that” to the infinite creator as I admire Its handiwork seen as the beautiful homes and trees and flowers and singing birds, and clouds in the sky.
I realized that God is probably patiently waiting for me to be bold and ask, “How do you do that?” How do you provide instantaneously and consistently for every blade of grass, every grain of sand, and every feather of every bird? How do you do love as the core of your Being?
I imagine that God would show me the answer the same way the seagull did, It would demonstrate to me instantaneous provision and infinite love and my only job would be to be aware enough to see it.
You are ahead of me aren’t you, because you know that is exactly what is going on all the time.
We are consistently provided with the demonstration of provision and love, but we are blind to it when we allow ourselves to be swept away by, and hypnotized by, the siren call of the evil of the worldview of lack and separation.
We watch, and sometimes even participate in, screaming and yelling, and blaming, and despair, and bad news, and hate, and greed, and unconscious thinking and believe that all of that is real and participating in this way will solve the problem and get us what we want.
We get caught up in it, mesmerized by it, and frozen by this evil that sometimes wears lamb’s clothing, but always bears the fruit of fear, hatred, or depression, or guilt.
We are sold the idea that the world owes us everything and we expect it to give us what we want now. When we accept this point of view as real we become addicted to figuring out how to extract from the world what we feel is our right to have.
If we don’t receive what we want the way we expect it to be, depending on how our human personality deals with these things, we may be angry, or depressed, or take offence. We may drop out or push harder.
Thinking that it is the world that provides what we want and need, we have made the world in debt to us and in doing so have become a debtor to the world, which of course has resulted in the massive debt with which countries and individuals are now burdened.
But it is not the world that provides, it is the infinite intelligence of Love that is provision. It’s a definite and radical shift in the way we think. We are not material beings, we are spiritual ideas of this divine Love, we are the provision, we are the supply, and we are the beauty that we see.
Perhaps this is incomprehensible to us most of the time, given that we have been blinded for so long by the opposite view, but we can and now must begin to see what is True about each one of us. One way to do this is simply ask of the infinite intelligence known as God, “How do you do that,” watch for the immediate answer and then say, “Thank you!”
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August 27th, 2009
Every morning I have a drink that begins with a cup of hot water. One morning our microwave broke so I thought, “Well I guess I won’t be drinking that this morning.”
It took a few minutes before I realized that a microwave is not the only way to heat hot water, just the one we had used for years; habit constricts horizons.
There is always a way. Maybe not the way we have done it for years, but the Divine that is infinite possibilities does not have only one path or one way or one supply or one opportunity or one look or one anything other than the One that includes all and is known as Love.
It’s hard to remember, much harder than realizing that hot water can also be heated on the stove. That’s because we are so used to feeling separate from Love with the accompanying feeling of lack.
The habitual lack-based worldview always attempts to creep in and separate us from the infinite possibilities and practicality of Love. It is in those times that we cling to the rock of Truth.
I can always tell when I am feeling very separate. I start having dialogues with myself; sometimes playing out more than one role, but always talking. This is different than my “normal” talking to myself; this is the dialogue that plays out how it could have been, should have been, or what I might have said if I had been wise enough in the moment to say it.
Getting out of that separate and dialoguing state sometimes feels impossible, but it is not. However, it does take a willingness to turn off the channel of separation and tune into the channel that is about the One.
One way I do this is have a grateful dialogue which resets my point of view and state of mind. As I do my morning walk, I try to practice a walking meditation. It’s harder than it sounds. I have to keep dragging my focus back to gratitude and away from whatever message the separation channel is playing.
Recently as I practiced this I experienced a new awareness about the statement, “Seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things will be added unto you.”*
The “Seek ye first his righteousness” became clearer. I realized that I couldn’t get to that feeling of peacefulness and love by seeking it either for myself or another, I had to seek first what is the Truth of Love and peace, and of course the rest would follow. I had to seek the right thinking – righteousness – that is Love.
One of the walking meditations that I use to ground my point of view in the Infinite One is the statement, “We are the loved of Love.” The “we” I am referring to comes from Mary Baker Eddy’s statement, “There is but one I or Us….”
While I am walking my mind wants to drift away to conversations, past, future or imagined; or it becomes occupied with designing places and things. It moves away from the idea of wholeness and is distracted by what I want. It doesn’t matter how good my intentions may be for what I want, or even if I want for another, it is still a distraction away from Truth.
Using a 360 degree soft vision technique while walking not only turns me away from the hypnotic internal dialogue, but brings my state of mind back to the awareness that the statement “We are the loved of Love” not only means people, but everything that appears externally and places it all back where it belongs, within the circle of One.
Obsessive vigilance is required when our intent is to move from the self-righteousness of fixing what appears to be broken or separate, to God’s righteousness which already is the wholeness of Love. Seeking to understand first the kingdom of God is not about getting something for ourselves or others, but the intent and desire to really know and live as One.
Meeting anger and resentment and sorrow with all encompassing unconditional love for ourselves and each other is one way out of the unhappiness of separation. The sooner we choose this perception, the sooner we find the peace and comfort that is the joyful atmosphere of the kingdom of God.
What does all this have to do with making hot water? Sometimes we think there is only one way to forgive, one way to seek first the kingdom of God, one way to experience at-one-ment, or atonement.
But there are many ways for each of these actions. Love, the nature of God, is expansive not constricted. No matter how many times we may appear to step away from the righteousness of God, the moment we step back and yield to Love’s direction we are within the kingdom of God and we intimately experience that each of us is the loved of Love.
*Bible – Matthew 6: 33
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August 10th, 2009
Sometimes loved ones appear to leave us by choice, either ours or theirs; or they leave when it is time for them to leave.
They either leave to a place in this state of being called earth where it is possible to see them again, or they make a transition to a state of being where seeing them physically is now not possible.
Choice or time, physical or not, all forms of leaving have a few things in common and one Truth that underlies it all; although loved ones may leave Love does not, which means we are never alone, or abandoned, or lost, or unloved.
Our emotions may tell us otherwise. Besides missing them we often experience regrets. We think “I could have done more,” or we ask, “What did I do wrong?” These thoughts can be helpful, but only if we treat them as a learning experience and not as guilt producers.
Facing what we could have done better or differently is the same as becoming skilled at anything by observing what we have done and practicing doing it even better the next time. If an athlete stays in the pain and guilt of not doing well longer than necessary to correct the action, then the cycle of not doing well continues.
This is true in all the walks of our life. We are becoming skilled at living and loving, and as we learn from what we do and move towards a higher understanding of perfecting that skill we don’t allow guilt to reside within us. Instead we practice expanding our life more profoundly into love.
By applying wettable sulfur to the moss and the grass on our hill I was providing an environment where moss could thrive, and the grass and weeds would not. This same idea can be applied to our relationships.
When we provide the environment that we wish to live in, then others will find comfort there or they won’t. This doesn’t make one good, or one bad. Although the relationship may make a transition to a different form, Love remains and we will experience that higher Love if we don’t allow regret or guilt or fear or anger to take control within our thinking.
In 1 Corinthians 13 we read that charity never fails. What is this charity, or Love, that Paul is talking about? It can’t be human love because it does often fail. It must be the omnipotent Love that is ever present.
As we choose to practice a higher awareness of omnipresent Love and become more skilled at letting go of the small worldview of how things are and to yielding to the Divine’s direction, we are providing an environment for others to also experience the Love that never fails.
Those that are traveling that same road as us at this time may walk with us. Those that are traveling a different road at this time may not. But, Love has never left us or them.
The other, seemingly more permanent, form of leaving is the transition we call death. This can feel harder to deal with because we know we won’t bump into our loved ones somewhere in our life, and we can’t call them on the phone, visit them in person, or even send them an email.
And yet, we know there is no death. We know this because we know that the infinite intelligence that we know as the Divine or God is Life Itself. We know this Life to be omnipresent and omniscient. We know that there is no beginning and no ending.
Sometimes this is easy to forget because we are so used to celebrating the seeming beginning of life known as birth and mourning the seeming ending called death. But, neither is real. Both are a marking of time born within a perception that we have adopted as our own, but is not the Truth of Life.
Sometimes we are witnesses to that passage between the awareness of the life that we live in now, and a new awareness of life that those who are making a transition experience. This is always evidence for us that Life continues and Love remains, and we can rejoice and find comfort and peace in that awareness.
At the end of that same verse in Corinthians Paul says, “For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known.”
As we experience more of “knowing as we are known” we will experience less of the sense of loss at what only appears as a leaving and more of the joy of knowing that there is no loss, nor leaving, there is only omnipresent Love Loving Itself seen as Life.
July 21st, 2009
This is the first Ezine I have ever written that will not be read by my dad; instead it is inspired by him…..
My dad passed away a few days ago. Asleep now to the worldview he is free to choose to be exactly what he is, and although I will miss him very much, I am filled with joy by this knowledge.
During the vigil which seemed like forever at the time, and now seems fleeting, I said these words to my daughter while we waited by his bed, “I am sorry you never really got to know all of who he is.”
This could have sounded untrue, because she did know him. As a child she was the one who crawled up into his lap, not at all worried if this was allowed, and of course it was.
She knew her grandfather, but she didn’t know the man called Art by his friends, because only those who knew him outside his home and in his profession knew that man.
I met my dad as Art when I was 18 and walked into his office on campus and entered his world because I had become a student instead of a daughter. I met him again when I heard him speak, and took his English class as a freshmen in college. I learned more about Art from what I read about him, or his friends told me about him after I was an adult, and even more now as his friends from around the world share what they knew.
Art was a loving husband, loyal and true, a reserved but wonderful father who did everything he knew how to do to give his children the best he had. But his public life and his private life rarely mixed.
As I said the words, “I am sorry you never really got to know all of who he is,” I realized how much I want to tell everyone in the world to not make the choice to not bring all of themselves home to their family.
Right there in the hospital I started to write this “Ezine” to beg everyone to be visible completely to everyone as all that they are. What could be worse than knowing that those that loved you never got to fully know you?
I wanted to walk up and down the halls saying, “Start now to fully bloom your life, let love lead you to the life you are intended to live. Share that life with everyone. Life is not to be compartmentalized so that someone won’t feel bad, or will get hurt.”
Imagine what life would be like!
How do your friends and family that love you know you? Do you share all that you are with them, or do you hide your light and your gifts afraid of the outcome.
The beautiful, loving, kind and gracious men and women who cared for my dad those last few days were beyond wonderful. I hope that their family and friends know them the same way we got to know them within their healing profession and away from home.
To really live and experience life as intended we must stop trying to control everything as if our small human selves are all that we are. Instead of playing it safe we can let go of our limited perceptions of love and step into the flow of Life as it is understood by the infinite omnipresent One, and us as its idea.
Then everyone who loves you will be able to say that they were and are blessed to fully know you.
Today, would you do something for me and my family as a tribute to our dad? Would you share yourself just a bit more with someone, would you become more visible in the world as your Unique Spiritual Blessing?
I know they will be very grateful for your gift, and I will celebrate the fact that you are living as the light that is you.
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Would you like to know a bit about the man called Art by his many friends? Here is the link to the article that celebrates this life.
July 2nd, 2009
My mentor master-mind program for Five Women for Five Weeks on Relationships begins July 9th. This is the perfect chance to have me help you really re-set your perceptions on Money, Love, Purpose, and Health.
This is a teleclass that is held on Thursday nights for an hour beginning at 8:00EST. This teleclass is taped in case you miss a session. Much of the “class” work is done during the week between the calls and I will be constantly present to guide you during this time.
If you do the work and let the perception shift happen – your life will absolutely shift too. It has to. From within to without. Let me help you make that shift.
Since there are only five slots please don’t wait to sign up. The registration fee varies depending on whether or not you are a member of Perception U.com but you can find out all the price info and register here.
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Or write to me .. I am always happy to answer questions.
July 2nd, 2009
Core values, family history, worldview agreements, and personal habits all entwine together to present a picture we call our life. Our lives are like a movie that goes on and on because we go on about it.
We stand in the middle of this movie, like characters on the screen, and try to change it or simply live well within it, using of course our core values, family history, worldview agreements, and personal habits to do so.
If these ideas all come together to form a pretty picture then life is good, when they don’t then life is not so good. When the worldview script of lack and discouragement appears as everyone in the movie suffering, then getting out of the movie called our life can seem impossible.
Standing in the middle of this life, or picture or movie, and trying to change it for the better or even survive will only have a temporary impact, because of one very key fact. The movie and the movie viewer are one.
This is not a whimsical idea. This is fact. From the book Biocentrism: “Moreover, if one accepts that the external world occurs only in Mind, in consciousness, and that it’s the interior of one’s brain that’s cognized “out there” at this moment, then of course everything is connected with everything else.” (Robert Lanza MD with Bob Berman)
This means it is absolutely possible to change our lives because our lives are the out-picturing of (but not the creation of ) what we believe and perceive to be true. It also means that there is only one way to both permanently make a change and that is to shift our perception from within.
But what if we want more than just a better life? What if we want to be what we really are, what if we want to experience ourselves as the outcome or idea of the infinite Mind, or omnipotent Light? What then?
To do this we must re-think reality and re-set our perception altogether. We must stop identifying ourselves as human, stop believing what the five senses tell us and listen instead to the quiet voice within; stop acting as if the movie and script are real, stop wanting the story to get better, and want instead to let go and live as the idea of God.
This is a radical thought and decision. It demands a root change. It demands that we reset our perception, or follow the biblical word “repent” which means turn around and walk the other way; turn away from the movie playing in our heads which results in what we call our lives.
Turn away from identifying ourselves as human and re-set our thinking and perception. It demands that we let go of how we want it to be, think it is, and then follow through with action and commitment to Truth.
This radical shift demands that we turn away from trying to fix things and people; turn away from our story and turn instead to the fact that what exists in our lives is and who we think we are is one and the same.
This is not a half way decision, it is a complete shift. Yes, it may appear to take time to reset habits and beliefs, but that too is only set within our agreement of what is true.
It may appear that others need to change first. Again, not true. What appears as they, or that, is really our own perception. There is no way to separate the thinker from what it is thinking.
Our responsibility then is not to create, control, or to make happen. Our responsibility is to stop separating ourselves from the ever present infinite intelligent flow or force we call God; it is to let go and be what we are, which in turn re-sets what we experience as our lives.
As we do this we should expect more beauty, peace, abundance, grace, happiness, love and all the other fruits of good to be more present in and as our lives.
Not because we worked at becoming good and wise humans, but because we gave up the story and returned home by turning within and consistently listening and following the still small voice, by paying attention to the symbols that prove the presence of God, and continually re-setting our perceptions to match our current, highest and best understanding of the Divine.
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June 15th, 2009
“Principle and its idea is one, and this one is God, omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent Being, and His reflection is man and the universe.” Mary Baker Eddy
A step into a study of partnering becomes an exercise in an increased awareness of how we are all one when we begin with the ultimate partnership between the Principle of infinite Mind, and its idea: man and the universe.
Mind knows itself through its ideas, and ideas cannot exist without the Mind that knows it. This is perfect partnership. This partnership cannot be split into separate identities or existences; it begins and forever remains one.
In nature everything reflects the principle of this oneness as partnership. For example; every flower partners with a multitude of ideas like air, sun, and water which assist it to grow and flourish. If we try to name all the partners a flower has we find that the list is endless. When we reverse that list we discover their equality and inseparableness. That’s just flowers; try everything else we see and the partnership between Mind and its idea becomes crystal clear.
Of course, our worldview training makes us think that we don’t have to choose to partner, or that we are lonely without partners. And yet we are in the ultimate partnership with the entire intelligence universe caring for us, as we care for it.
There is no escaping partnership, but believing that we are separate humans we can certainly try to, resulting in the experience of imperfect partnerships. But, that is just a misperception.
We think we have a choice about partnership and we do, but not the one we think. We have a choice to hide from the awareness of partnership, but that doesn’t change the fact that each one of us is in a variety of partnerships at all times.
We partner with the person checking us out at the store, with the mailman, with our garden, with our home, with our body, with our business or job, with our food, with our cars, with our family and with the children of the world; we are always in partnership.
We each have a partnership with the earth, with our purpose, and with our personal being. We care for these ideas, and they care for us. It is a dynamic, ever present awareness that the well-being of our partners is essential for our own well-being.
Beginning every partnership choice and participation with the premise of equality and inseparability each partnership in our life reflects to an increasing degree an accurate representation of the divine Principle of Love loving itself.
After a couple danced together beautifully one of the judges said to the man, “You are so generous to your partners. You give them everything, you are so present for them, and they make you better and that is what you need for a great partnership.”
The dancers referred to the twenty of them who had been chosen for the competition as family, but dancing with their partners had a different quality and concept. Without each partner being entirely present for each other in every way there would have been no dance at all, or at the least a boring one, or at the most a dangerous one.
The “secret” here is the choice to be absolutely present in a partnership; to be as dedicated to the well-being of our partner as we are to ourselves.
I watch the birds in our yard as they partner together. They are constantly caring for each other; while one eats the other keeps watch. They call to each other constantly throughout the day; one calls and the other answers, much like the thumbs up sign of the scuba diver. They demonstrate a quality of communication that is a foundation of good partnerships.
The dynamics of partnership enriches each participant because of its requirement to be awake and aware and present for each other. It provides a sense of security and safety and freedom knowing that another has our welfare in mind as we have theirs in mind.
Many of us hesitate to fully participate in partnership because we have been in partnerships that appear to not have worked out. But, relationships are about partnering and no matter how much we may try to escape them, they are the foundation of life.
Acting from the awareness that Principle and its idea is one our personal partnerships grow and flourish. Accepting that we are the idea of the Principle of Love we will wisely choose those partnerships that are based in equality and care.
All partnerships are born from the essence of the ultimate partnership, the one between the divine, God, Principle, Mind and its idea – each one of us as one, never separate, never alone, always and forever one as Love loving itself. Knowing this fact we can rejoice in the quality of the ultimate partnership present in and as our lives and experience for ourselves the consistent availability of perfect partnerships.
May 29th, 2009
The dawn chorus of birds singing of their freedom and the beauty of a new day has begun outside my window. It fills the space with the songs of celebration of loving life. The trees are completely leafed out spreading out as far as they can reach, and the stream flows freely.
This expansive outreach of life is a far cry from the condensed expression of living so commonly found within our own lives.
Once many years ago, desperate for answers as to why it felt as if I was always sacrificing one area of my life for happiness in another, I asked for help. The answer I received was simple. I was told, “There is plenty of room in the world for you.”
It was the same concept and advice I heard in my dance lessons, “Take up space. Use the entire room. Use every level of the space given. Be seen!”
Or the same advice art teachers always give, “Use the whole paper!”
There is plenty of room in the world for you too to live expansively as yourself. Nature apparently needs no such advice; it simply provides the example of what living life fully looks like.
But, how do we do this? Our programming within the worldview is to not take up space, to not live life in celebration, to not live as the gift that we are; to learn lessons through suffering, to lose what we love, to never be safe.
The worldview is about “never enough” and the fear that concept produces. This programming invades every moment of our lives, from which we can sometimes get a momentary release, but it often feels as if we can never fully escape from it.
For over a month I was dealing with a virus problem within my websites. I could fix the problem so it disappeared, but I couldn’t find the core of the issue to make it stop coming back. The virus was taking the form of a script that had entwined itself through everything.
I asked for help and found it. The simple, elegant, and effective solution was provided by an expert who wrote a “good script,” and that good script crept through every page and “ate” the bad script.
The same solution can be applied to our “bad script programming.” Send a “good script” through it to dissolve it forever. No need to waste time fixing it once and then having to fix it over and over again. No need to sacrifice one area of our life to be happy in another. No need to limit our expression of ourselves.
The script is so easy; you may think it won’t work. But, it will because it is based on universal principles of omnipresent good, that “what we perceive to be reality magnifies,” or said differently;”Finally, brethren, whatsoever things are true, whatsoever things are honest, whatsoever things are just, whatsoever things are pure, whatsoever things are lovely, whatsoever things are of good report; if there be any virtue, and if there be any praise, think on these things.” Philippians 4:8
Say this: “I love my life.” Four simple words, easy, elegant, and effective.
You may say, “But I don’t love my life.” But, that is part of that programming. When my websites were infected they were not visible, they were hidden from view by the bad script. Once that script was cleared out they were visible again. They never went anywhere.
In the same way, the life you love is always present. Say, “I love my life” with feeling and discover the truth of this for yourself.
Say this “good script” in every moment of your life no matter what is going on. I guarantee that it works. Turn it on and keep it running.
It took a week for the good script to crawl through my websites to destroy the bad script, so be patient while these four words work in your life.
In the mean time you can trust in the outcome and celebrate the joy of life as freely as the birds that call to you in the dawn. The sun always rises. Love is always Life. There is plenty of room in the world for you!
May 14th, 2009
With a new Star Trek movie out I was reminded of a lesson I learned from Star Trek and how it relates to what appears to be going on in the world. It is the story of the power of illusion and how to see through it. Star Trek fan or not – yes I am a big fan – the lesson is easy to apply.
It happened in the first Star Trek episode seen as The Menagerie that aired in November of 1966. In an attempt to rescue Captain Pike from the Talosians, who were masters of illusions, the crew used heavy phaser fire to blast an entrance through the “mountain.”
Repeated attempts to blast open the entrance appeared to them to be unsuccessful because the Talosians’ illusions completely hid the reality from them that they were successful the first time.
Captain Pike eventually realizes that the phasers must have worked and forces the Talosians to reveal the truth to everyone. The illusion vanishes immediately revealing the effects of the blasts.
Holding that idea in mind, let’s call debt and the concept of lack in all its forms a prison from which we all wish to escape.
We can be in debt in many forms because debt is more than just owing money, but all debt stems from the same erroneous premise, and until we uncover and step away from that premise we can never be really free from it.
This erroneous premise is an expectancy that good comes directly from the object that we see – whether it is a person, place or thing. It is our perception, premise, and belief that the material world, or matter, owes us a living, or good things, or health, or love, or our completeness that puts us into its debt as we have put it into ours.
How does this work with the Star Trek metaphor?
We often blast away at perceived problems, including debt and lack, with our phasers of Truth, but seeing nothing change we think that it doesn’t work, and yet it always does. Shifting our perceptions always changes the object that we perceive because what appears as the material world is the objectification of our current highest awareness of every idea, person, place or thing.
Choosing a perception of infinite good and blasting away at what appears to be a problem with that awareness does indeed dissolve it.
If we don’t see a change, it is not the problem itself, but our habit of seeing, or listening to the very loud voice that tells us in no uncertain terms that the problem is still present when in actuality it has already been dissolved.
The problem is that we continue the illusion by continuing to believe that the problem still exists, or ever did for that matter. The problem then becomes that we believe the illusion.
This means we waste immeasurable amounts of time, energy, thought, and hope on something that does not exist so that we do not take the time to simply demand and expect that we experience the Truth now.
In the Bible story of Elisha and his servant, the servant was afraid of the huge army facing them and worried that they did not have the means to fight the enemy. Elisha wasn’t worried, because he knew that it what appeared as the enemy was powerless before Truth.
Responding to his servants fear, “…he answered, Fear not: for they that be with us are more than they that be with them. And Elisha prayed, and said, Lord, I pray thee, open his eyes, that he may see. And the Lord opened the eyes of the young man; and he saw: and, behold, the mountain was full of horses and chariots of fire round about Elisha.” (Bible 11 Kings 6:16)
Just like Elisha we can stop focusing on the problem, and return to Truth and stay there. What we perceive to be reality magnifies. We can choose to magnify Truth, not illusion. It’s that simple. No matter how big the enemy, how loud it may appear, how terrifying the perceived outcome, we are wasting our time shooting at an illusion.
What we can spend our time blasting away at is the habit of looking at what appears to be wrong and struggling and working to make it better. We can’t make “it” better. It will always remain an illusion and we can fire our time and our hard work at it all we want and but we can’t fix what isn’t there.
Projecting into the future with the fear of what will happen to us, we miss the present abundance. Demanding that the material world owes us a living, or a love, or happiness, we fall into the trap of every kind of debt because we have followed the siren call of the material and return to our old habits of thinking and perceiving.
Instead of looking at what appears as a material world as if it were the truth, let’s look again. Let’s step away from the illusion and immerse ourselves in what is actually True. Let’s look and see that everything that is present in our life is in reality the presence of intelligent Love, God. Let’s follow that clear guidance and direction of this promise: “And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.” (Bible John 8:32)
