Posts Tagged ‘the shift’
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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I wrote a book called A Woman’s ABC’s Of Life: From Women Who Learned The Hard Way that has a whole bunch of practical advice. I wrote it hoping it would save women of all ages lots of learning time. You can read more about it here: Perception Publishing
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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December 1st, 2008
There is only one evil, only one lie. It has many faces. It plays many roles. It speaks many languages. But, it is just one lie. Although it may appear that we must deny each version of the one lie separately, the truth is, we only have to recognize this one lie for what it is to permanently disable it, and dissolve its power forever.
We have reached a time in our world where doing just that is no longer a luxury, but is now an imperative call to action. Not for someone else to do, but for each of us to fight the battle that is required for this enemy of peace and love to be destroyed.
Calling it a war is not a good idea; because that implies that we will use the same methods this lie uses to harm us to destroy it. We all know that doesn’t work. Fighting with someone when we disagree never resolves the issue. Each of us has experienced the escalation of the power of this one lie into greater anger and destruction when we fight against it.
However, in a sense it is a war and a battle, but not with something or somebody else, but with the idea that the one lie or one evil exists. We can defeat that idea, not from without, but from within.
How can we do this?
First we begin with the Truth there is only One power and it is all Good.
The one lie claims that there is more than one power. The one lie claims that the One omnipresent, omniscient, omniaction, omnipotent is not Omni. The one lie claims that there are two powers, one good, one bad. The one lie declares that bad is present, and as capable as good. The one lie uses terrorist’s tactics to scare us into submission. The one lie feeds on our fear. The one lie’s intention is to make us forget that there is only One power and that one Infinite Good.
Yes, when we stop and examine its premise then the one lie makes no sense at all. Of course we are always faced with the question. “If there is only One then where did this illusion of the one lie that there is two come from?” Trying to answer that question right now will derail us from following the Truth of the One that is Infinite Divine Power.
It doesn’t matter if we don’t understand the why. The human mind cannot understand this illusion and it is a distraction and red herring to spend time trying to do so.
What we can do is follow the logic of Truth. We know it to be true that what we observe is what we see. We know that the act of seeing or perceiving something is what we experience.
The corner stone of The Shift® to Spiritual Perception has always been, “What we perceive to be reality magnifies.” Terrorism, in all its forms, wants us to see it, the one lie, as reality so that it can magnify.
Is this what we want? Of course not! We want to experience, see, perceive, magnify, observe and live in abundant joy and harmony. Follow this perception law to its ultimate conclusion; as we “war” with this false claim within, and stand completely in the One big R Reality as that which we want to magnify, the one lie of evil has no place to exist.
It will dissolve within, it will be defeated without.
As we attend to the needs of all of our neighbors in all areas of the world, we stand in Truth. We don’t let the outward become the inward. We stand at the doorway of our thinking and say “no” to the one lie in all its subtle suggestions.
This means that we also stop agreeing with the one lie’s siren call of materialism. We stop participating in any tactics that can escalate into large scale terrorism. Examining our thinking on a continual basis we uncover and uproot any outgrowth of the one lie no matter what form it is taking.
How do we know when it is the one lie or the One Truth?
If it steals happiness, joy, security and love, it is the fruit of the one lie. If it reveals happiness, joy, security and love as ever present in infinite abundance, it is the fruit of the One Truth of Infinite Harmony.
We can stand together in this ultimate denial of the one lie, and as we do, we will expose and dissolve forever its false power, and then we will know as we are known by the One Divine Intelligence of Good.
Together we can perceive the Reality of Divine Love, and that will magnify in our lives and our families lives, our next door neighbor’s life, our communities life, our countries life.
Each of us, no matter where we may live, will feel that difference and we will find the strength to defeat that one lie within, no matter how loudly it screams. But, no matter how much noise it makes it has never changed the Truth that we are all One as Love.
Together we stand in this Truth, and together we will dissolve forever the lie of two, because we live as One.
