CHAPTER 1

Part 2

The reality you experience is, in its entirety, a spiritual construction. You are neither bound by the "laws of nature" you have been taught nor are you ever a victim of physicality. The reality you perceive is always a matter of choice. Even the idea that you can only evolve one excruciating developmental step at a time is a choice you make. You make such choices in order to maintain what you believe to be a state of stability. You fear that stepping out of your image of reality to embrace an infinite realm would shatter you. You are certain that insanity would ensue. Within your present frame of reference, insanity is the only alternative you perceive. We offer you a much larger alternative though and, in time and out of time, you will come to embrace it.

The world you now consider to be reality is merely an idea that you cherish. You hold it steady by sheer will. The combined forces of the human species influences all of life in your realm of existence. To uncover the rest of infinity requires that you rebel from this consensus. You must be willing to question your every assumption, perception, judgement and belief. Walk fearlessly along the edge of the abyss and stare into the darkness which seems to mark that boundary where spirit holds the power of creation. Building the trust you need to hold in order to explore your own beingness takes practice. The progress you experience accelerates as you grow into that trust.

You are here in the presence of these words and the spirit which conveys them because you are ready to contemplate stepping out of the human consensus and into the freedom of spirit. You have acquired the gamut of experience needed to feel fully embodied as human. You have entertained many of the thoughts contained herein. We encourage you to push at the boundaries that you have been taught since birth are very real. We promise you that they are only as real as you insist they are. They are choices; easy choices in fact. We ask you to step beyond the easy answers that those around you are urging you to accept. Freely contemplate the ideal. Then place yourself smack in the middle of it. You ARE the ideal!

How came you here? By choice, of course, came you here. You flow with the desire of all creation to know itself. You approach the threshold of your universe being flooded with self awareness. As you plug into the personalized awareness of your planet, solar system and physical universe and share in the collective consciousness of the human species, you are becoming aware of the spiritual nature of your existence. You are NOT the individualized self that you have assumed. You are so much more.

As you have practised earlier, drawing all your senses into an open focus, draw now upon the universe you occupy. Close your eyes and relax your physical self by calming your breathing and releasing all tension in your body. With each inhale, draw in the spiritual essence which is life itself. Your breathing is a metaphor for that ebb and flow of spirit. Reach outwards with your imagination and feel the space your body is now in. Touch the walls around you and imagine that you can feel them. Reach now beyond those walls and gently explore the physical environment. Whatever your imagination conjures is real and valid. Send these "feelers" down into the Earth and let them expand like the roots of a tree. Feel the touch of Earth as they spread through the soil and rock. Plunge them deeply through rock and water, oil and ash toward the center of your planet. Feel yourself a part of this beautiful planet. Let your heart call out to Earth as you reach for its essence. Anything you see or hear or sense is perfectly alright. Let it be as you explore. Call out to the Earth, not as God or Goddess or as a chunk of rock, but as a brother/sister soul, sharing your quest for self-awareness. Open yourself to the answering call. This is the cry of joy of your own soul. Can you let yourself hear it?

This is an infinite universe. Every thought, feeling and action has a place here. Don't deny your experience. To do so is to deny your self. Not every experience has to make sense right away. This effort to reach outside the confines of your little world will work its magic on your state of mind in stages and in stages change your life.

After exploring your connection to the planet for a while, you will feel an impulse to explore outwards into the vastness of the universe. All it takes is the desire directed by your thoughts. Step aside and don't hold any expectations. Just enjoy whatever you encounter. This is good practice fro your mundane existence as well. Don't make demands on life, just enjoy it. Life will support your willingness to enjoy. So, reach to the Sun and the Moon. Notice your feelings and flow with them. Perhaps you might ask a question or two when you feel contact being made. Let yourself be amazed at how interactive this universe can be. As you reach out beyond your solar system, you will find the impulses more subtle but still available to you. Recognize that this too is a portion of who you are. Bask in the glory that you are!

Amazing how easy that is isn't it? There is no pressure to have an ecstatic experience. You are just exploring yourself. Let each touch you feel in your adventure elicit a wave of love from the center of your heart. You are touching your own self and each wave of love brings healing and joy. In time and with practice, you will see yourself in every perception and offer such a wave of love to each and every thing and person you encounter. Therein lies the greatest happiness.

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Let us now discuss the nature of your spacious self. You are an organization of awareness, pure and simple. The universe that you seem to inhabit is the result, totally, of your perception. Even though you have been taught pretty much the opposite, that the universe exists independent of you, your perception actually creates and structures reality. This active process is much simpler than creation seems to you to be. Projecting from pure spirit into various degrees of focus, your soul has split itself into countless pieces at countless layers of itself and countless"hierarchies". We use quotes here because we do not wish to imply that some levels are somehow more Godly than others. However, at stages more connected to pure spirit, there is a greater unity of self. By the point of creating individualized ego identities, there are infinite numbers of projections into infinite numbers of realities. Each fork in your life's road gets explored fully by your soul and the influences of paths not taken bleed through to your consciousness in usually subtle ways that are easy to miss. To your soul, you are the dreamer dreamed. You have such intensity of focus that your dream is a compelling reality. You even offer yourself a daily reminder of this truth by dreaming yourself. As you touch your soul in sleep, reuniting with larger portions of your whole self, your personal ego identity must often create bizarre symbology to describe the boundless variety of a very foreign perspective.

It seems to you so vast an undertaking to be creating the rich complexity of the physical universe. It would certainly be easier to put these pages down and grasp your ears exclaiming, "Oh, my head's gonna explode!" How can you imagine yourself as an infinite being, capable of creating infinite realities, not just this one you believe is the "real" one?

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Go once more into a relaxed state of awareness. Widen your senses as we have practised and begin to extend outwards from your body. Feel objects in the room with your imagination. Imagine picking one up and caressing its contours. Feel the solidity of it. A rock or crystal wold be excellent for this purpose. As you imaginatively play with this object, open your mind to the possibility that the object bears a message for you. Ask what the message is and then stand aside and listen intently. Allow whatever your thoughts turn to, to bubble up. When you feel complete with this, go on to another object. Practice is useful in learning to step aside and really listen. Also, with practice, you will learn to be open to more and more of the awareness around you that masquerades as non-sentient life or inanimate objects. Communications with such organizations of awareness is a natural and simple skill which anyone who learns to really listen can master. Use this imaginative exploration with an object actually in your hands or sit at the base of a tree and open to the impulses that come to you. You are using the same skills that allow your own spiritual self to communicate with you.

You will soon realize two very important points. One is that your soul is to you as you are to the objects in your world. Your soul experiences you in a way that is analogous to how you experience the physical world; as a sharply focused awareness of a very specific type. By letting yourself experience objects that momentarily become your whole universe, you mirror your soul's experience of you. The second important point is that you ARE the world you perceive and it IS you. Enlarge your identity to include everything you perceive, inner and outer, and you gain a more accurate perception of reality. The entire created universe is who we, you and us, really are.

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