8. The Illusion of Conditionality
This is The Eighth Illusion:
CONDITIONALITY EXISTS
In order for Condemnation to exist, there must be something that you don’t understand about love.
This was your conclusion, and you invented Conditionality as a characteristic of life in order to resolve the dilemma that this presented.
Everything in life must be conditional. Wasn’t this self-evident? Some of the thinkers among you asked. Have you not understood The Second Illusion? The outcome of life is in doubt.
Failure Exists.
That means you can fail to win God’s love. God’s love is conditional. You must meet the Requirement, you will be separated. Is this not what The Third Illusion taught you?
Your cultural stories have been very persuasive. I have spoken in this communication largely through the stories of Western culture, because that is the culture in which this communication began. But the culture of the East, and all of the many cultures and traditions of humans in their wide variety, have their stories as well, and most are based on some or all of The Ten Illusions.
As I have made clear, there are more than ten illusions. You are creating hundreds everyday. Each of your cultures has created its own, but in some way or another they are all based on the same basic misconceptions. This is evidenced by the fact that they have all created the same results.
Life on your planet is filled with experiences of greed, violence, killing, and nearly everywhere, conditional love.
You have learned conditional love from your thought that the love of the Supreme Being, however you conceptualize that Being, is conditional. Or, if you do not believe in a Supreme Being, but rather, in Life itself, then you have conceived of Life as a process expressing itself within the context of Conditionality. That is to say, one condition depends upon another. Some of you would call this Cause and Effect.
Yet what of First Cause?
That is the question that none of you has been able to answer. Even your greatest scientists have not been able to unravel the mystery. Even your greatest philosophers have not been able to solve the problem.
Who created That Which Creates?
If you conceive of a cause-and-effect Universe, fair enough—but what caused the First Cause?
This is where your teachers stumble. This is where your path ends. This is where you reach the edge of understanding.
Now we shall fly off the edge.
There is no Conditionality in the Universe. That Which Is is That Which Is, and there are no conditions under which it is not.
Do you understand?
It is no possible for “What Is” not to be. There are no conditions under which that would be true. This is why Life is eternal. Because Life is That Which Is, and That Which is can never not be.
Life always was, is now, and ever shall be, world without end.
So, too, with God. For God is what Life is.
So, too, with love. For love is what God is.
Love cannot not “be,” and there are no conditions under which it can be made to disappear.
You may substitute the word “Life” or the word “God” for “love” in the above sentence and it would be equally true.
Conditional love is an oxymoron.
Did you get that? Do you understand that? The two are mutually exclusive. The experience of Conditionality and the experience of love cannot exist at the same time in the same place.
Your idea that they can is what is destroying you.
Your civilization has chosen The Eighth Illusion at a very high level. The result is that your civilization itself threatened with extinction.
You are not threatened with extinction. You cannot be. For you are Itself. Yet the form in which you express Life at the present moment—the civilization which you have created, and are about to uncreate—is not unchangeable. It is wonder of Who You Are that you can change form whenever you wish. Indeed, you do this all the time.
If, however, you are enjoying the form in which you now experience yourself, why you change it?
That is the question now facing the whole human race.
You have been given a paradise in which to live. Every possible joy of physical life has been made available to you. You are truly in a Garden of Eden. That part of you cultural Story is real. Yet you have not been separated from Me, and you never have to be. You can experience this paradise as long as you wish. Or, you can destroy it on a moment’s notice.
Which do you choose?
You are about to choose the latter.
Is that your choice? Is that your conscious decision?
Look at this question very carefully. There is much riding on your answer.
The lack of true Conditionality in the Universe notwithstanding, you have believed firmly that Conditionality exists. Surely it exists in God’s kingdom. Every one of your religions has taught you that. So it must exist in the Universe at large. It was, you decided, a fact of life. So you have spent lifetimes trying to figure out what conditions could allow you to create the life—and afterlife—that you desire if you did not meet the Requirement. If you met the Requirement, there was no problem. But what if you did not?
This search has led you down a blind alley, fore there are no conditions. You may have the life that you desire, and whatever afterlife you imagine, simply by choosing it.
This you do not believe. The formula can’t be that simple, you say. No, no…you have to meet the Requirement.
You do not understand yourselves to be creative beings. Nor do you understand Me to be so. You imagine that I can somehow fail to have something that I desire (all My children returning home to Me)—which means that I must not be a truly a creative being at all but a dependent one. If I were a truly creative, I would be able to create anything I choose. But I seem to be dependent upon certain conditions in order to have what I want.
Humans could not imagine what conditions could possibly have to be met in order for them to get back home to God. So they did the best they could… and just made some up. These were explained through what you call religions.
Religions could not only explain the Requirements but could also explain how one could recapture God’s love if one did not meet the Requirement. Thus, the concepts of forgiveness and salvation were born. They were the conditions of love. God says “I love you if,” and these were the “ifs.”
Had people looked at things objectively, the fact that every religion explains forgiveness and salvation differently might have been proof that it was all being made up. But objectively was not something humans proved to be particularly capable of it. It is not something many humans are capable of even today.
You continue to declare that you are not making anything up. You say that the conditions of return to God were established by Me. And if there are several hundred different religions, pointing to several thousand different conditions, it is not because I have given a mixed message, but because the human race has simply not gotten it right.
You have got it right, of course. It’s just those other people, in those other religions, who have not gotten it right.
Now, there are a lot of ways you could solve that. You could ignore them. You could try to convert them. You could even decide to simply eliminate them.
Your race has tried all of those things. And you had a right to do so, didn’t you? You had a responsibility to do so, didn’t you? Was this not the work of God? Were you not called upon to convince and convert others so that they too, might know what was right? And was your killing and your ethnic cleansing not justified when others could not be convinced? Was there not something, some unwritten “something,” that gave you this right?
These are questions that humans began to ask.
Clearly, there was a flaw in The Eighth Illusion. This should have revealed the idea of Conditionality as false, but humans knew at some very deep level that they could not give up the Illusion, or something very vital would come to and end.
Again, they were right. But again, they made a mistake. Instead of seeing the Illusion as an Illusion, and using it for the purpose for which it was intended, they thought they had to fix the flaw.
It was to fix the flaw in The Eighth Illusion that The Ninth Illusion was created.
Monday, May 28, 2007
The Illusion of Superiority
9. The Illusion of Superiority
This is The Ninth Illusion:
SUPERIORTY EXISTS
Humans concluded that if Conditionality existed, then knowing the conditions would be necessary to enjoy and create the life—and the afterlife—that one desired.
This conclusion was unavoidable, as was: Those who knew the conditions were better off than those who did not.
And it did not take much time for the human race to remove the word “off” from the previous sentence.
Thus the idea of Superiority was born.
Superiority had many uses. Chief among them was providing inarguable justification for doing whatever was needed in order to guarantee that “enough” of everything—God’s love—was available. Knowing the conditions gave one the right to ignore others, or seek to convert others, or simply eliminate others who did not know the conditions, or agree to them.
Therefore, seeking to know the conditions of Life became a major preoccupation. Knowing the conditions of Life was called science. Knowing the conditions of the afterlife was called conscience. If one knew these conditions and understood them, one was said to have “a good conscience,” or to be conscious.
A “high consciousness” was said to result from the earnest study of something you called theology, from theo + logy, or, loosely, God logic.
After much study, it was concluded that there were certain circumstances under which the Requirement could be met, and certain circumstances under which that was impossible. There were also certain circumstances under which one could be forgiven for not having the Requirement.
These circumstances came to be known as “the conditions.”
“Having” was added to “doing” in your experience.
When you have enough brains, you can do the thing called get good grades, graduate at the top of your class, and find a great job. Then you can be the thing called successful.
When you have enough money, you can do the thing called buy a wonderful house, and you can be the thing called secure.
When you have enough time, you can do the thing called take a vacation, and you can be the thing called rested, refreshed, and relaxed.
When you have enough power, you can do the thing called determine your own destiny, and you can be the thing you called free.
When you have enough faith, you can do the thing called find God, and you can be the thing called saved.
This is how you set up your world. When someone has the right stuff, they can do the right things—the things that allow them to be what they’ve always wanted to be.
The difficulty is that people cannot easily do all the things they need to do unless they have all of the things you say they need to have.
They cannot get a good job and rise to the top, even if the have the brains, unless they are also the right gender. They cannot buy a wonderful house even if they have the money, unless they also have the right skin color. They cannot find God, even if they have faith, unless they also have the right religious beliefs.
Having the right stuff is not a guarantee of getting all that you desire, but it gives you a big head start.
The more knowledge of these conditions one acquired (or was thought to have acquired), the more superior one was understood to be. As has been mentioned, this Superiority gave people the authority (or encouraged people to grant themselves authority) to do whatever they felt was necessary in order to assure themselves more Life and more God—neither of which there was enough of.
This is why you’ve had to do what you’ve had to do: because there was not enough. This is what you have told yourself. Your entire species has accepted this mantra.
There’s more than one of you, and so there is not enough to go around. Not enough food, not enough money, not enough love, not enough God.
You have to compete for it.
And if you’re going to compete, you have to have some way of figuring out who wins.
The one who is superior wins—and Superiority is based on certain conditions.
Some humans sought to guarantee that they would win, and so arbitrarily added to the conditions. They made it possible to declare themselves the victors in advance.
They declared, for instance, that males were superior than females. Wasn’t this self-evident? Some of the thinkers among you asked. (Of course, it was mostly males doing the asking.)
Similarly, whites were pronounced to be Superior.
And then, later, Americans.
And, of course, Christians.
Or was it Russians? And Jews? Or Women?
Could such thing be true? Of course they could. It all depended upon who was creating the system.
The very earliest superior beings were not male… and males actually agreed. After all, were females not the bringers of life? And was life not that for which everyone had the highest desire? So it was during your matriarchal period that females were considered superior.
Similarly, the white race was not the first race, and therefore not superior.
In truth, it is not superior today.
Nor are males superior.
Nor Jews.
Nor Christians.
Nor Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, nor even Democrats or Republicans, Conservatives or Communists, nor anything else whatsoever.
Here is the truth—the truth that will set you free, the truth you cannot allow to be spoken because it will set anyone free:
There is no such thing as Superiority.
You have made it all up.
You have defined what you think is superior, based on your preferences and your desires and your understandings (which are very limited, indeed). You have announced what you proclaim to be better based on your perspective and your objectives and your agenda.
Yet some of you have claimed this is My agenda. God is the one who named the Chosen People, or the One True Faith, or the only path to salvation.
All of this goes back to the First Illusion: Need Exists.
You imagine that because God has needs, that God has an agenda.
This was your first mistake, and it has led to what could be your last. For I tell you this: Your idea of Superiority could be the last mistake you ever made.
Humans think that they are superior to nature, and so, they seek to subdue it. In doing this, they destroy the very habitat which was created to protect them and to be their paradise.
Humans think that they are superior to each other, and so, they seek to subdue each other. In doing this, they destroy the very family that was created to embrace them and to give them love.
Your species is making it very difficult to experience Life in its present form because of your belief in the Illusions. By not using the Illusions as they were intended, you are turning what was intended to be a beautiful dream into a living nightmare.
But you can undo all of this right now. Simply see the Illusions for what they are—realities contrived for a purpose—and then stop living them as if they were real.
In particular, stop living The Ninth Illusion with such conviction. Indeed, use the Illusion to notice that Superiority is not real. There can be no such thing as Superiority when We Are All One. A thing cannot be superior to itself.
All things are One Thing, and there is nothing else. “We Are All One” is more than a beautiful slogan. It is precise description of the nature of Ultimate Reality. When you understand this, you begin to experiencing life—and treating each other way—in a new way. You see the relationship of all things differently. You notice the connectedness at a much higher level. Your awareness is expanded, your insight becomes very keen. You, quite literally, see in.
The increased ability to peer deeply into life allows you to look past the Illusion and to recognize—to “know again,” to re-cognize—your reality. It is by this process that you remember Who You Really Are.
This movement, from not knowing to knowing again, may be made slowly. The journey may be undertaken in small steps. Small steps can produce large advances. Always remember that.
One such small step would be to put and end to better.
This idea of Superiority is the most seductive idea ever visited upon the human race. It can turn the heart to stone, change the warm to cold, yes to no, in an instant.
A single sentence, uttered from your pulpits, lecterns, and rostrums, by your national congresses and your world summit leaders, could change everything.
“Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.”
This humble utterance could begin to heal the divisions between your religions, close the gap between your political parties, curb the conflicts between your nations.
With one word you could end them.
“Namasté.”
God in me honors God in you.
How simple. How beautiful. How wondrous, indeed.
Yet how difficult, when one is caught up in the Illusion, to see God in every one and every thing. Each person would have to be aware of the Illusion—be aware that it is an illusion.
Yet if it is not an illusion but is life as it reality is, then how is it that precisely when we imagine ourselves to be superior, we behave in the most inferior ways? Why is it exactly when we think ourselves better than we act worse?
Clearly, there was a flaw in The Ninth Illusion. This should have revealed the idea of Superiority as false, but humans knew at some very deep level that they could not give up the Illusion, or something very vital would come to and end.
Again, they were right. But again, they made a mistake. Instead of seeing the Illusion as an Illusion, and using it for the purpose for which it was intended, they thought they had to fix the flaw.
It was to fix the flaw in The Ninth Illusion that The Tenth Illusion was created.
This is The Ninth Illusion:
SUPERIORTY EXISTS
Humans concluded that if Conditionality existed, then knowing the conditions would be necessary to enjoy and create the life—and the afterlife—that one desired.
This conclusion was unavoidable, as was: Those who knew the conditions were better off than those who did not.
And it did not take much time for the human race to remove the word “off” from the previous sentence.
Thus the idea of Superiority was born.
Superiority had many uses. Chief among them was providing inarguable justification for doing whatever was needed in order to guarantee that “enough” of everything—God’s love—was available. Knowing the conditions gave one the right to ignore others, or seek to convert others, or simply eliminate others who did not know the conditions, or agree to them.
Therefore, seeking to know the conditions of Life became a major preoccupation. Knowing the conditions of Life was called science. Knowing the conditions of the afterlife was called conscience. If one knew these conditions and understood them, one was said to have “a good conscience,” or to be conscious.
A “high consciousness” was said to result from the earnest study of something you called theology, from theo + logy, or, loosely, God logic.
After much study, it was concluded that there were certain circumstances under which the Requirement could be met, and certain circumstances under which that was impossible. There were also certain circumstances under which one could be forgiven for not having the Requirement.
These circumstances came to be known as “the conditions.”
“Having” was added to “doing” in your experience.
When you have enough brains, you can do the thing called get good grades, graduate at the top of your class, and find a great job. Then you can be the thing called successful.
When you have enough money, you can do the thing called buy a wonderful house, and you can be the thing called secure.
When you have enough time, you can do the thing called take a vacation, and you can be the thing called rested, refreshed, and relaxed.
When you have enough power, you can do the thing called determine your own destiny, and you can be the thing you called free.
When you have enough faith, you can do the thing called find God, and you can be the thing called saved.
This is how you set up your world. When someone has the right stuff, they can do the right things—the things that allow them to be what they’ve always wanted to be.
The difficulty is that people cannot easily do all the things they need to do unless they have all of the things you say they need to have.
They cannot get a good job and rise to the top, even if the have the brains, unless they are also the right gender. They cannot buy a wonderful house even if they have the money, unless they also have the right skin color. They cannot find God, even if they have faith, unless they also have the right religious beliefs.
Having the right stuff is not a guarantee of getting all that you desire, but it gives you a big head start.
The more knowledge of these conditions one acquired (or was thought to have acquired), the more superior one was understood to be. As has been mentioned, this Superiority gave people the authority (or encouraged people to grant themselves authority) to do whatever they felt was necessary in order to assure themselves more Life and more God—neither of which there was enough of.
This is why you’ve had to do what you’ve had to do: because there was not enough. This is what you have told yourself. Your entire species has accepted this mantra.
There’s more than one of you, and so there is not enough to go around. Not enough food, not enough money, not enough love, not enough God.
You have to compete for it.
And if you’re going to compete, you have to have some way of figuring out who wins.
The one who is superior wins—and Superiority is based on certain conditions.
Some humans sought to guarantee that they would win, and so arbitrarily added to the conditions. They made it possible to declare themselves the victors in advance.
They declared, for instance, that males were superior than females. Wasn’t this self-evident? Some of the thinkers among you asked. (Of course, it was mostly males doing the asking.)
Similarly, whites were pronounced to be Superior.
And then, later, Americans.
And, of course, Christians.
Or was it Russians? And Jews? Or Women?
Could such thing be true? Of course they could. It all depended upon who was creating the system.
The very earliest superior beings were not male… and males actually agreed. After all, were females not the bringers of life? And was life not that for which everyone had the highest desire? So it was during your matriarchal period that females were considered superior.
Similarly, the white race was not the first race, and therefore not superior.
In truth, it is not superior today.
Nor are males superior.
Nor Jews.
Nor Christians.
Nor Muslims, Buddhists, Hindus, nor even Democrats or Republicans, Conservatives or Communists, nor anything else whatsoever.
Here is the truth—the truth that will set you free, the truth you cannot allow to be spoken because it will set anyone free:
There is no such thing as Superiority.
You have made it all up.
You have defined what you think is superior, based on your preferences and your desires and your understandings (which are very limited, indeed). You have announced what you proclaim to be better based on your perspective and your objectives and your agenda.
Yet some of you have claimed this is My agenda. God is the one who named the Chosen People, or the One True Faith, or the only path to salvation.
All of this goes back to the First Illusion: Need Exists.
You imagine that because God has needs, that God has an agenda.
This was your first mistake, and it has led to what could be your last. For I tell you this: Your idea of Superiority could be the last mistake you ever made.
Humans think that they are superior to nature, and so, they seek to subdue it. In doing this, they destroy the very habitat which was created to protect them and to be their paradise.
Humans think that they are superior to each other, and so, they seek to subdue each other. In doing this, they destroy the very family that was created to embrace them and to give them love.
Your species is making it very difficult to experience Life in its present form because of your belief in the Illusions. By not using the Illusions as they were intended, you are turning what was intended to be a beautiful dream into a living nightmare.
But you can undo all of this right now. Simply see the Illusions for what they are—realities contrived for a purpose—and then stop living them as if they were real.
In particular, stop living The Ninth Illusion with such conviction. Indeed, use the Illusion to notice that Superiority is not real. There can be no such thing as Superiority when We Are All One. A thing cannot be superior to itself.
All things are One Thing, and there is nothing else. “We Are All One” is more than a beautiful slogan. It is precise description of the nature of Ultimate Reality. When you understand this, you begin to experiencing life—and treating each other way—in a new way. You see the relationship of all things differently. You notice the connectedness at a much higher level. Your awareness is expanded, your insight becomes very keen. You, quite literally, see in.
The increased ability to peer deeply into life allows you to look past the Illusion and to recognize—to “know again,” to re-cognize—your reality. It is by this process that you remember Who You Really Are.
This movement, from not knowing to knowing again, may be made slowly. The journey may be undertaken in small steps. Small steps can produce large advances. Always remember that.
One such small step would be to put and end to better.
This idea of Superiority is the most seductive idea ever visited upon the human race. It can turn the heart to stone, change the warm to cold, yes to no, in an instant.
A single sentence, uttered from your pulpits, lecterns, and rostrums, by your national congresses and your world summit leaders, could change everything.
“Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.”
This humble utterance could begin to heal the divisions between your religions, close the gap between your political parties, curb the conflicts between your nations.
With one word you could end them.
“Namasté.”
God in me honors God in you.
How simple. How beautiful. How wondrous, indeed.
Yet how difficult, when one is caught up in the Illusion, to see God in every one and every thing. Each person would have to be aware of the Illusion—be aware that it is an illusion.
Yet if it is not an illusion but is life as it reality is, then how is it that precisely when we imagine ourselves to be superior, we behave in the most inferior ways? Why is it exactly when we think ourselves better than we act worse?
Clearly, there was a flaw in The Ninth Illusion. This should have revealed the idea of Superiority as false, but humans knew at some very deep level that they could not give up the Illusion, or something very vital would come to and end.
Again, they were right. But again, they made a mistake. Instead of seeing the Illusion as an Illusion, and using it for the purpose for which it was intended, they thought they had to fix the flaw.
It was to fix the flaw in The Ninth Illusion that The Tenth Illusion was created.
The Illusion of Ignorance
10. The Illusion of Ignorance
This is The Tenth Illusion:
IGNORANCE EXISTS
Increasingly, as each Illusion was piled upon last, Life became more and more difficult to figure out. Humans asked more and more questions that could not be answered. If this was true, then why that? If that was true, then why this? It wasn’t long before philosophers and teachers began throwing up their hands. “We don’t know,” they said, “and we don’t know if it’s possible to know.”
Thus the idea of Ignorance was born.
This idea served so many purposes that it spread quickly and soon became the ultimate answer.
We just don’t know.
Human intuitions began finding in this not only a refuge but a certain kind of power. “We don’t know” turned into “we are not supposed to know,” which became “ you do not have a need to know,” which finally became “what you don’t know won’t hurt you.”
This gave religions and governments the authority to say what they chose, and act as they pleased, without having answer to anyone.
“We are not supposed to know” actually became a religious doctrine. There are certain secrets of the Universe that God does not want us to know, this doctrine declared, and to even inquire about such things was blasphemy. This doctrine quickly spread from religion to politics and government.
The result: There was a time in your history when certain question asked at certain times in certain ways could get one’s head cut off.
Literally.
This prohibition against inquiry elevated Ignorance to a desirable attribute. It became very wise and very good manners to ask questions. It became accepted behavior. Indeed, expected behavior.
And while the punishment for the offense of impertinent inquiry may not seem quite as severe today as it was in days gone by, there are certain places on your planet where little has changed.
Certain totalitarian regimes insist to this very hour that only voices of agreement be heard and that voices of dissent be silenced, sometimes in the most brutal ways.
Such barbaric behaviors are justified by proclamations that they are “necessary to ensure order.” Protests by the international community are met with indignant sniffs, repressive governments declaring such issues “internal matters.”
Now I tell you this: The essence of love is freedom. Anyone who says they love you, and that they are looking out for you, will grant you freedom.
It is as simple as that. You do not have to look further or deeper for more sophisticated understanding.
I have told you before, and I will tell you again. There are two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear.
Love grants freedom, fear takes it away. Love opens up, fear closes down. Love invites full expression, fear punishes it.
Love invites you, always, to break the bonds of ignorance. To ask any questions. To seek any answers. To speak any word. To share any thought. To support any system. To worship any God.
To live your truth.
Love invites you, always, to live your truth.
That’s how you can know that it is love.
I love you. That is why I have to come to tell you that Ignorance is an Illusion.
You know everything that there is to know about Who You Really Are—which is the essence of love. There is nothing you have to learn. You need merely remember.
You have been told that you cannot know God, and that to even ask about Me is an offense against Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that there is something that I need from you, and if you do not give it to Me, you may not return Home, to Oneness with Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that you are separate from Me, and that you are separate from each other.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that there is not enough, and that you must therefore compete with each other for everything, including Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that if you do not do what I require in this competition, you will be punished, and that the punishment is condemnation to everlasting torture.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that My love for you is conditional, and that if you know and meet My conditions, and all the conditions needed to win the competition for life, then you are superior.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
Finally, you have been told that you do not know that these statements are untrue, and that you can never know, because it is all far too much for you to understand.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
NOW HERE IS THE TRUTH…
1. God needs nothing.
2. God cannot fail, and neither can you.
3. Nothing is separate from anything.
4. There is enough.
5. There is nothing you have to do.
6. You will never be judged.
7. You will never be condemned.
8. Love knows no condition.
9. A thing cannot be superior to itself.
10. You already know all of this.
This is The Tenth Illusion:
IGNORANCE EXISTS
Increasingly, as each Illusion was piled upon last, Life became more and more difficult to figure out. Humans asked more and more questions that could not be answered. If this was true, then why that? If that was true, then why this? It wasn’t long before philosophers and teachers began throwing up their hands. “We don’t know,” they said, “and we don’t know if it’s possible to know.”
Thus the idea of Ignorance was born.
This idea served so many purposes that it spread quickly and soon became the ultimate answer.
We just don’t know.
Human intuitions began finding in this not only a refuge but a certain kind of power. “We don’t know” turned into “we are not supposed to know,” which became “ you do not have a need to know,” which finally became “what you don’t know won’t hurt you.”
This gave religions and governments the authority to say what they chose, and act as they pleased, without having answer to anyone.
“We are not supposed to know” actually became a religious doctrine. There are certain secrets of the Universe that God does not want us to know, this doctrine declared, and to even inquire about such things was blasphemy. This doctrine quickly spread from religion to politics and government.
The result: There was a time in your history when certain question asked at certain times in certain ways could get one’s head cut off.
Literally.
This prohibition against inquiry elevated Ignorance to a desirable attribute. It became very wise and very good manners to ask questions. It became accepted behavior. Indeed, expected behavior.
And while the punishment for the offense of impertinent inquiry may not seem quite as severe today as it was in days gone by, there are certain places on your planet where little has changed.
Certain totalitarian regimes insist to this very hour that only voices of agreement be heard and that voices of dissent be silenced, sometimes in the most brutal ways.
Such barbaric behaviors are justified by proclamations that they are “necessary to ensure order.” Protests by the international community are met with indignant sniffs, repressive governments declaring such issues “internal matters.”
Now I tell you this: The essence of love is freedom. Anyone who says they love you, and that they are looking out for you, will grant you freedom.
It is as simple as that. You do not have to look further or deeper for more sophisticated understanding.
I have told you before, and I will tell you again. There are two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear.
Love grants freedom, fear takes it away. Love opens up, fear closes down. Love invites full expression, fear punishes it.
Love invites you, always, to break the bonds of ignorance. To ask any questions. To seek any answers. To speak any word. To share any thought. To support any system. To worship any God.
To live your truth.
Love invites you, always, to live your truth.
That’s how you can know that it is love.
I love you. That is why I have to come to tell you that Ignorance is an Illusion.
You know everything that there is to know about Who You Really Are—which is the essence of love. There is nothing you have to learn. You need merely remember.
You have been told that you cannot know God, and that to even ask about Me is an offense against Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that there is something that I need from you, and if you do not give it to Me, you may not return Home, to Oneness with Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that you are separate from Me, and that you are separate from each other.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that there is not enough, and that you must therefore compete with each other for everything, including Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that if you do not do what I require in this competition, you will be punished, and that the punishment is condemnation to everlasting torture.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that My love for you is conditional, and that if you know and meet My conditions, and all the conditions needed to win the competition for life, then you are superior.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
Finally, you have been told that you do not know that these statements are untrue, and that you can never know, because it is all far too much for you to understand.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
NOW HERE IS THE TRUTH…
1. God needs nothing.
2. God cannot fail, and neither can you.
3. Nothing is separate from anything.
4. There is enough.
5. There is nothing you have to do.
6. You will never be judged.
7. You will never be condemned.
8. Love knows no condition.
9. A thing cannot be superior to itself.
10. You already know all of this.
The Illusion of Ignorance
10. The Illusion of Ignorance
This is The Tenth Illusion:
IGNORANCE EXISTS
Increasingly, as each Illusion was piled upon last, Life became more and more difficult to figure out. Humans asked more and more questions that could not be answered. If this was true, then why that? If that was true, then why this? It wasn’t long before philosophers and teachers began throwing up their hands. “We don’t know,” they said, “and we don’t know if it’s possible to know.”
Thus the idea of Ignorance was born.
This idea served so many purposes that it spread quickly and soon became the ultimate answer.
We just don’t know.
Human intuitions began finding in this not only a refuge but a certain kind of power. “We don’t know” turned into “we are not supposed to know,” which became “ you do not have a need to know,” which finally became “what you don’t know won’t hurt you.”
This gave religions and governments the authority to say what they chose, and act as they pleased, without having answer to anyone.
“We are not supposed to know” actually became a religious doctrine. There are certain secrets of the Universe that God does not want us to know, this doctrine declared, and to even inquire about such things was blasphemy. This doctrine quickly spread from religion to politics and government.
The result: There was a time in your history when certain question asked at certain times in certain ways could get one’s head cut off.
Literally.
This prohibition against inquiry elevated Ignorance to a desirable attribute. It became very wise and very good manners to ask questions. It became accepted behavior. Indeed, expected behavior.
And while the punishment for the offense of impertinent inquiry may not seem quite as severe today as it was in days gone by, there are certain places on your planet where little has changed.
Certain totalitarian regimes insist to this very hour that only voices of agreement be heard and that voices of dissent be silenced, sometimes in the most brutal ways.
Such barbaric behaviors are justified by proclamations that they are “necessary to ensure order.” Protests by the international community are met with indignant sniffs, repressive governments declaring such issues “internal matters.”
Now I tell you this: The essence of love is freedom. Anyone who says they love you, and that they are looking out for you, will grant you freedom.
It is as simple as that. You do not have to look further or deeper for more sophisticated understanding.
I have told you before, and I will tell you again. There are two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear.
Love grants freedom, fear takes it away. Love opens up, fear closes down. Love invites full expression, fear punishes it.
Love invites you, always, to break the bonds of ignorance. To ask any questions. To seek any answers. To speak any word. To share any thought. To support any system. To worship any God.
To live your truth.
Love invites you, always, to live your truth.
That’s how you can know that it is love.
I love you. That is why I have to come to tell you that Ignorance is an Illusion.
You know everything that there is to know about Who You Really Are—which is the essence of love. There is nothing you have to learn. You need merely remember.
You have been told that you cannot know God, and that to even ask about Me is an offense against Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that there is something that I need from you, and if you do not give it to Me, you may not return Home, to Oneness with Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that you are separate from Me, and that you are separate from each other.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that there is not enough, and that you must therefore compete with each other for everything, including Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that if you do not do what I require in this competition, you will be punished, and that the punishment is condemnation to everlasting torture.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that My love for you is conditional, and that if you know and meet My conditions, and all the conditions needed to win the competition for life, then you are superior.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
Finally, you have been told that you do not know that these statements are untrue, and that you can never know, because it is all far too much for you to understand.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
NOW HERE IS THE TRUTH…
1. God needs nothing.
2. God cannot fail, and neither can you.
3. Nothing is separate from anything.
4. There is enough.
5. There is nothing you have to do.
6. You will never be judged.
7. You will never be condemned.
8. Love knows no condition.
9. A thing cannot be superior to itself.
10. You already know all of this.
This is The Tenth Illusion:
IGNORANCE EXISTS
Increasingly, as each Illusion was piled upon last, Life became more and more difficult to figure out. Humans asked more and more questions that could not be answered. If this was true, then why that? If that was true, then why this? It wasn’t long before philosophers and teachers began throwing up their hands. “We don’t know,” they said, “and we don’t know if it’s possible to know.”
Thus the idea of Ignorance was born.
This idea served so many purposes that it spread quickly and soon became the ultimate answer.
We just don’t know.
Human intuitions began finding in this not only a refuge but a certain kind of power. “We don’t know” turned into “we are not supposed to know,” which became “ you do not have a need to know,” which finally became “what you don’t know won’t hurt you.”
This gave religions and governments the authority to say what they chose, and act as they pleased, without having answer to anyone.
“We are not supposed to know” actually became a religious doctrine. There are certain secrets of the Universe that God does not want us to know, this doctrine declared, and to even inquire about such things was blasphemy. This doctrine quickly spread from religion to politics and government.
The result: There was a time in your history when certain question asked at certain times in certain ways could get one’s head cut off.
Literally.
This prohibition against inquiry elevated Ignorance to a desirable attribute. It became very wise and very good manners to ask questions. It became accepted behavior. Indeed, expected behavior.
And while the punishment for the offense of impertinent inquiry may not seem quite as severe today as it was in days gone by, there are certain places on your planet where little has changed.
Certain totalitarian regimes insist to this very hour that only voices of agreement be heard and that voices of dissent be silenced, sometimes in the most brutal ways.
Such barbaric behaviors are justified by proclamations that they are “necessary to ensure order.” Protests by the international community are met with indignant sniffs, repressive governments declaring such issues “internal matters.”
Now I tell you this: The essence of love is freedom. Anyone who says they love you, and that they are looking out for you, will grant you freedom.
It is as simple as that. You do not have to look further or deeper for more sophisticated understanding.
I have told you before, and I will tell you again. There are two energies at the core of the human experience: love and fear.
Love grants freedom, fear takes it away. Love opens up, fear closes down. Love invites full expression, fear punishes it.
Love invites you, always, to break the bonds of ignorance. To ask any questions. To seek any answers. To speak any word. To share any thought. To support any system. To worship any God.
To live your truth.
Love invites you, always, to live your truth.
That’s how you can know that it is love.
I love you. That is why I have to come to tell you that Ignorance is an Illusion.
You know everything that there is to know about Who You Really Are—which is the essence of love. There is nothing you have to learn. You need merely remember.
You have been told that you cannot know God, and that to even ask about Me is an offense against Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that there is something that I need from you, and if you do not give it to Me, you may not return Home, to Oneness with Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that you are separate from Me, and that you are separate from each other.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that there is not enough, and that you must therefore compete with each other for everything, including Me.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that if you do not do what I require in this competition, you will be punished, and that the punishment is condemnation to everlasting torture.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
You have been told that My love for you is conditional, and that if you know and meet My conditions, and all the conditions needed to win the competition for life, then you are superior.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
Finally, you have been told that you do not know that these statements are untrue, and that you can never know, because it is all far too much for you to understand.
That is not true.
Neither of those statements is true.
NOW HERE IS THE TRUTH…
1. God needs nothing.
2. God cannot fail, and neither can you.
3. Nothing is separate from anything.
4. There is enough.
5. There is nothing you have to do.
6. You will never be judged.
7. You will never be condemned.
8. Love knows no condition.
9. A thing cannot be superior to itself.
10. You already know all of this.
Teaching Your Children Well
11. Teaching Your Children Well
Teach these truths to your children.
Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy—no person, place, or thing—and that true happiness is found within. Teach them that they are sufficient unto themselves.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that failure is a fiction, that every trying is a success, and that every effort is what achieves the victory, with the first no less honorable than the last.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that they are deeply connected to all of Life, that they are One with all people, and that they are never separate from God.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that they live in a world of magnificent abundance, that there is enough for everyone, and that it is in sharing the most, not in gathering the most, that the most is received.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that there is nothing that they are required to be or to do to be eligible for a life of dignity and fulfillment, that they need not compete with anyone for anything, and that God’s blessing are meant for everyone.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that they will never be judged, that they need not worry about always getting it right, and that they do not have to change anything, or “get better,” to be seen as perfect and beautiful in the eyes of God.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that consequences and punishment are not the same thing, that death does not exist, and that God would never condemn anyone.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that there are no conditions to love, that they need not worry about ever losing your love, or God’s, and that their own love, unconditionally shared, is the greatest gift they can give to the world.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that being special does not mean being better, that claiming superiority over someone is not seeing them for Who They Really Are, and that there is great healing in acknowledging “mine is not a better way, mine is merely another way.”
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that there is nothing that they cannot do, that the illusion of Ignorance can be eradicated from the earth, and that all anyone really needs is to be given back to themselves by being reminded of Who They Really Are.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach these things not with your words but with your actions; not with discussion but with demonstration. For it is what you do that your children will emulate, and how you are that they will become.
Go now and teach these things not only to your children but to all people and all nations. For all people are your children, and all nations are your home, when you set out on the journey to mastery.
This is the journey on which you embarked many centuries and many lifetimes ago. It is the journey for which you have prepared and that has brought you here, to this time and place.
This is the journey that calls you urgently now than ever before, on which you feel yourself proceeding with ever-increasing speed.
This is the inevitable outcome of the yearning of your soul. It is the speaking of your heart, in the language of your body. It is the expression of Divinity within you. And it calls to you now as it has never called before—because you are hearing it now as it was never heard before.
It is time to share with the world a glorious vision. It is the vision of all minds that ever truly searched, of all hearts that have ever truly loved, of all souls that have ever truly felt the Oneness of Life.
Once you have felt this, you can never be satisfied with anything less. Once you have experienced it, you will want nothing but to share it with all those whose lives you touch.
For it is the Reality, and it stands in spectacular contrast to the Illusion. You will be able to experience the Reality, and to know it, because of the Illusion. Yet you are not the Illusion, and the “you” that you experience within the Illusion is not Who You Really Are.
You cannot remember Who You Really Are as long as you imagine the Illusion to be real. You must understand that Illusion is an illusion—that you created it, for purposes very real, but that the illusion itself is not real.
This is what you have come here to remember, with more clarity than you have ever remembered before.
The transformation of your world will depend on your remembering. The meaning of the word education is not “to put it,” but “to draw out.” All true education is the drawing out from the student of what is already there. The Master knows that it is already there and has no need, therefore, to place it there. The Master simply endeavors to cause the student to notice that it is there.
Teaching is never about helping others to learn but about helping them to remember.
All learning is remembering. All teaching is reminding. All lessons are memories, recaptured.
It is impossible to teach something new, for there is nothing new to teach. Everything that ever was, is now, and ever shall be, is, right now.
The soul has access to all of this information. Indeed, the soul is all of this…in formation.
The soul is the Body of God, in formation.
I am not in constant process of formation. That process has been called evolution, and it is a process that never ends.
If you think of God as a process, or a being, that is “finished,” you have not correctly remembered what is so. Here is a great secret: God is never finished.
With anything. Including you.
God is never finished with you.
That is because you are what God is. And since God is not finished with God, God cannot possibly be finished with you.
Now, here is the Divine dichotomy: I have said that everything that ever was, is now, and ever shall be, is, right now. I have also said that the process of evolution is never-ending, thus, never over. How can both be true?
The answer has to do with the nature of time, as you understand it. In truth, there is no such thing as time, there is simply a process which is going on continually in the never-ending Moment of Now.
God is a process.
It is not possible for you to understand this within the framework of human logic or the limitations of the human mind. These limitations are self-imposed, and they are self-imposed for a reason. It goes back to the reason for the entire illusion, which has been explained to you many times now—and will be explained one more time before this present communication comes to an end.
For now, simply now that God is never done “Godding.” The process by which I experience Myself is ongoing, never-ending, and instant.
The particular aspect of Me that is manifesting as human life on earth is even now being transformed. You are, in these present days and times, choosing to play a conscious role in this transformation. Your choice to play that role is demonstrated by the simple act of picking up this book. You would have not done so—much less read this far—without having an intention at some very deep level to return to awareness.
Even if you imagine yourself to be reading this book as a skeptic or critic, that is just your current imagining. Your underlying purpose in having come to this communication is to bring about a grand remembering.
This remembering is what is occurring now all over your world, throughout your human society. It has begun in earnest, and you can see evidence of it all around you.
You are nearing the second stage of the process of transforming life on your planet, and it can be complete in a very short period of time—a few decades, one or two generations—if you choose.
The first stage of this transformation has taken much longer—indeed, several thousand years. But even this, in cosmic terms, is a very short time. It is during this period of the awakening of humanity that individuals whom you have called teacher, Master, guru, or avatar undertook the task of reminding others of Who They Really Are.
As the number of people who are touched by this early group and their teaching increases to critical mass, you will experience a quickening of the spirit, or what you might call breakthrough, in which second transformation begins.
Now the adults begin teaching their young—and from that point, the movement is very fast.
Your race is at this breakthrough point now. Many humans felt a shift when you moved into your new millennium. This was a key point in the onset of a global shift of consciousness in which you are now playing your role.
The key to continuing this momentum lies with your young. If the education of your offspring now includes certain life principles, your species can make the quantum leap forward in its evolution of which it is capable.
Build your schools around concepts such as awareness, honesty, responsibility; subtopics such as transparency, sharing, freedom, full-expression, joyous sexual celebration, human bonding and diversity in oneness.
Teach your children these things, and you will have taught them grandly. Above all, teach them of the Illusion, and how—and why—to live with it, and not within it.
Teach these truths to your children.
Teach your children that they need nothing exterior to themselves to be happy—no person, place, or thing—and that true happiness is found within. Teach them that they are sufficient unto themselves.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that failure is a fiction, that every trying is a success, and that every effort is what achieves the victory, with the first no less honorable than the last.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that they are deeply connected to all of Life, that they are One with all people, and that they are never separate from God.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that they live in a world of magnificent abundance, that there is enough for everyone, and that it is in sharing the most, not in gathering the most, that the most is received.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that there is nothing that they are required to be or to do to be eligible for a life of dignity and fulfillment, that they need not compete with anyone for anything, and that God’s blessing are meant for everyone.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that they will never be judged, that they need not worry about always getting it right, and that they do not have to change anything, or “get better,” to be seen as perfect and beautiful in the eyes of God.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that consequences and punishment are not the same thing, that death does not exist, and that God would never condemn anyone.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that there are no conditions to love, that they need not worry about ever losing your love, or God’s, and that their own love, unconditionally shared, is the greatest gift they can give to the world.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that being special does not mean being better, that claiming superiority over someone is not seeing them for Who They Really Are, and that there is great healing in acknowledging “mine is not a better way, mine is merely another way.”
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach your children that there is nothing that they cannot do, that the illusion of Ignorance can be eradicated from the earth, and that all anyone really needs is to be given back to themselves by being reminded of Who They Really Are.
Teach them this, and you will have taught them grandly.
Teach these things not with your words but with your actions; not with discussion but with demonstration. For it is what you do that your children will emulate, and how you are that they will become.
Go now and teach these things not only to your children but to all people and all nations. For all people are your children, and all nations are your home, when you set out on the journey to mastery.
This is the journey on which you embarked many centuries and many lifetimes ago. It is the journey for which you have prepared and that has brought you here, to this time and place.
This is the journey that calls you urgently now than ever before, on which you feel yourself proceeding with ever-increasing speed.
This is the inevitable outcome of the yearning of your soul. It is the speaking of your heart, in the language of your body. It is the expression of Divinity within you. And it calls to you now as it has never called before—because you are hearing it now as it was never heard before.
It is time to share with the world a glorious vision. It is the vision of all minds that ever truly searched, of all hearts that have ever truly loved, of all souls that have ever truly felt the Oneness of Life.
Once you have felt this, you can never be satisfied with anything less. Once you have experienced it, you will want nothing but to share it with all those whose lives you touch.
For it is the Reality, and it stands in spectacular contrast to the Illusion. You will be able to experience the Reality, and to know it, because of the Illusion. Yet you are not the Illusion, and the “you” that you experience within the Illusion is not Who You Really Are.
You cannot remember Who You Really Are as long as you imagine the Illusion to be real. You must understand that Illusion is an illusion—that you created it, for purposes very real, but that the illusion itself is not real.
This is what you have come here to remember, with more clarity than you have ever remembered before.
The transformation of your world will depend on your remembering. The meaning of the word education is not “to put it,” but “to draw out.” All true education is the drawing out from the student of what is already there. The Master knows that it is already there and has no need, therefore, to place it there. The Master simply endeavors to cause the student to notice that it is there.
Teaching is never about helping others to learn but about helping them to remember.
All learning is remembering. All teaching is reminding. All lessons are memories, recaptured.
It is impossible to teach something new, for there is nothing new to teach. Everything that ever was, is now, and ever shall be, is, right now.
The soul has access to all of this information. Indeed, the soul is all of this…in formation.
The soul is the Body of God, in formation.
I am not in constant process of formation. That process has been called evolution, and it is a process that never ends.
If you think of God as a process, or a being, that is “finished,” you have not correctly remembered what is so. Here is a great secret: God is never finished.
With anything. Including you.
God is never finished with you.
That is because you are what God is. And since God is not finished with God, God cannot possibly be finished with you.
Now, here is the Divine dichotomy: I have said that everything that ever was, is now, and ever shall be, is, right now. I have also said that the process of evolution is never-ending, thus, never over. How can both be true?
The answer has to do with the nature of time, as you understand it. In truth, there is no such thing as time, there is simply a process which is going on continually in the never-ending Moment of Now.
God is a process.
It is not possible for you to understand this within the framework of human logic or the limitations of the human mind. These limitations are self-imposed, and they are self-imposed for a reason. It goes back to the reason for the entire illusion, which has been explained to you many times now—and will be explained one more time before this present communication comes to an end.
For now, simply now that God is never done “Godding.” The process by which I experience Myself is ongoing, never-ending, and instant.
The particular aspect of Me that is manifesting as human life on earth is even now being transformed. You are, in these present days and times, choosing to play a conscious role in this transformation. Your choice to play that role is demonstrated by the simple act of picking up this book. You would have not done so—much less read this far—without having an intention at some very deep level to return to awareness.
Even if you imagine yourself to be reading this book as a skeptic or critic, that is just your current imagining. Your underlying purpose in having come to this communication is to bring about a grand remembering.
This remembering is what is occurring now all over your world, throughout your human society. It has begun in earnest, and you can see evidence of it all around you.
You are nearing the second stage of the process of transforming life on your planet, and it can be complete in a very short period of time—a few decades, one or two generations—if you choose.
The first stage of this transformation has taken much longer—indeed, several thousand years. But even this, in cosmic terms, is a very short time. It is during this period of the awakening of humanity that individuals whom you have called teacher, Master, guru, or avatar undertook the task of reminding others of Who They Really Are.
As the number of people who are touched by this early group and their teaching increases to critical mass, you will experience a quickening of the spirit, or what you might call breakthrough, in which second transformation begins.
Now the adults begin teaching their young—and from that point, the movement is very fast.
Your race is at this breakthrough point now. Many humans felt a shift when you moved into your new millennium. This was a key point in the onset of a global shift of consciousness in which you are now playing your role.
The key to continuing this momentum lies with your young. If the education of your offspring now includes certain life principles, your species can make the quantum leap forward in its evolution of which it is capable.
Build your schools around concepts such as awareness, honesty, responsibility; subtopics such as transparency, sharing, freedom, full-expression, joyous sexual celebration, human bonding and diversity in oneness.
Teach your children these things, and you will have taught them grandly. Above all, teach them of the Illusion, and how—and why—to live with it, and not within it.
Seeing the Illusions as illusions
12. Seeing the Illusions as illusions
How you can see the Illusion as an illusion when it appears to be so real? And how is it that it seems so real if it is an illusion?
These are the questions humans are beginning to ask as your species moves into the experience of its own conscious evolution. Now there will be answers, and you will step out of the Illusion of Ignorance.
I will give you answers here, for your consideration.
Remember, as with all communications from God, take what you read as valuable, but not as infallible. Know that you are your own highest authority. Whether you read the Talmud or the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita or the Qur’an, the Pali Canon or the Book of Mormon, or any holy text, do not place your source authority outside of you. But, rather, go within to see if the truth you’ve found is in harmony with the truth you find in your heart. If it is, do not say to others, “This book is true.” Say, “This book is true for me.”
And if others ask you about the way you are living because of the truth you have found within you, be sure to say that yours is not a better way, yours is merely another way.
For that is what this present communication is. This communication is just another way of looking at things. If it makes the world more clear for you, fine. If it puts you more closely in touch with your own innermost truth, good. But be careful not to turn this into your new “holy scripture,” for then you will have simply replaced one set of beliefs of another.
Seek not a set of beliefs, seek an awareness of what you know. Use whatever you find that returns you to awareness. Understand that you are living an illusion, and that none of it is real. Yet the Illusion points to what is real and give you an experience of it.
How can you see the Illusion as an illusion when it appears to be so real? And how is it that it seems so real if it is an illusion?
The second question will be answered first.
The Illusion seems so real because so many people believe that it is not an illusion.
In your Alice in Wonderland world, everything is as you believe it to be. There are thousands, millions, of examples of that. Here are two.
Once, you believed that the sun revolved around the earth—and, indeed, for you it did. All your evidence proved that it did! So certain were you of this truth that you developed an entire science of astronomy around it.
Once, you believed that everything physical moved from one point to another through time and space. All your evidence proved it! So certain were you of this truth that you built an entire system of physics around it.
Now listen carefully. The wonder of these sciences and these systems is that they worked.
The astronomy that you created based on your belief that the earth was the center of the Universe worked to explain the visual phenomena you saw in the movement of the planets across the night sky. Your observation supported your belief, creating what you called knowledge.
The physics that you created based on your belief about particles of matter worked to explain the visual phenomena you saw in the physical world. Again, your observations supported your belief, creating what you called knowledge.
Only later, when you looked more closely at what you were seeing, did you change your mind about these things. Yet that change of mind did not come easily. The first people who suggested such a change of mind were called heretics, or in later times, foolish of mistaken. Their ideas of a new astronomy, with the earth revolving around the sun, or of quantum physics, in which particles of matter did not move continuous line through time and space but were seen to disappear in one place and reappear in another, were labeled spiritual and scientific blasphemy. Their proponents were discouraged, denounced, even put to death for their beliefs.
It is your beliefs that were true, the majority of you insisted. After all, were they not supported by every observation? Yet, which came first, the belief or the observation? That is the central question. That is the inquiry you did not wish to make.
Is it possible that you see what you want to see? Could it be that you observe what you expect to observe? Or perhaps more to the point, looked right past what you do not expect to observe?
I tell you, the answer is yes.
Even today, when your modern science—tired of mistakes of the past—vows to observe first, and draw conclusions later, still those conclusions cannot be trusted. That is impossible for you to look at anything objectively.
Science has concluded that nothing which is observed is unaffected by the observer. Spirituality told you this centuries ago, and now science has caught up. Your doctors and laboratories have learned that they must conduct double-blind tests during important research to even come close to guaranteeing accuracy.
In human experience, all things are considered within the context of what you think you already understand. You cannot help but do this. You know no other way to proceed.
Put another way, you are looking at the Illusion from within the Illusion.
Every conclusion you come to about the Illusion is, therefore, based on the Illusion. And so, every conclusion is an illusion.
Let this be your new insight and your constant reminder:
Every conclusion is an illusion.
Now, let us return to the first question. How can you organize the Illusion as an illusion when it seems so real?
You have just learned that the reason it seems so real is not because it is real, but because you believe so firmly that it is. Therefore, to change the way you see the Illusion, change what you believe about it.
In the past, you were told that seeing is believing. But lately a new idea has been advanced—that believing is seeing. And I tell you, this is true.
If, when you confront the Illusion, you believe it is an illusion, you will see it as an illusion, even though it seems very real. You will then be able to use the Illusion as it was intended to be used—used as a tool with which to experience Ultimate Reality.
You will remember to create the Illusion. You will cause it to be what you wish to be, rather than simply watching it present itself as you think that it has to be, out of our agreement that “that’s just the way it is.”
So just how can you do this?
You are already doing it. You simply do not know it and are thus making unconscious, rather than conscious, choices. That is, when you are making true choices at all. Most of the time you are simply accepting the choices of others.
Your choice has been to choose what others have chosen. And so, you re-live the cultural story of your forebears—as they did of theirs, even unto the seventh generation.
The day that you stop choosing what has been chosen for you will be the moment of your liberation.
You will not then escape the Illusion but be liberated from it. You will step out of the Illusion, but will continue to live with it, free of its ability to control you or your reality.
You will never choose to end the Illusion, once you understand its purpose, until your own purpose is fulfilled.
Your purpose is not only to know and experience Who You Really Are, but to create Who You Next Will Be. It is your function to re-create yourself anew in every single Moment of Now, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision you ever held about Who You Are. This is the process you have called evolution.
Yet you need not be affected by this process in any negative way. You can be in this world but not of it.
When you are, you will begin to experience the world as you choose to experience it. You will then understand itself to be an action rather than a reaction; something that you are making, not something that you are having.
When you understand this, everything in your live will change. When enough of you understand this, everything on your planet will change.
Those who have understood this secret have been called Masters. Those who have taught this secret have been called avatars. Those who have lived this secret have been called blesséd.
Therefore, blesséd be.
To live as enlightened Master, you must become a heretic and blasphemer, for you will not believe what everyone else believes, and others will deny your new truth even as you deny their old one.
You will deny that the world as others are experiencing it is real, as did those who denied that the world was flat. As in those days, this will fly race of what seems incontrovertible, based on the appearance of things. As in those days, this will generate argument and disagreement, and you will set sail across stormy oceans to discover endless horizons. And, as in those days, you will live in a new world.
This is the world that you have been waiting to create, and which you have been meant to experience, from the beginning of time. Time, too, is an illusion, so it might more correctly be said “since the Illusion began.”
Always remember: The Illusion is not something you are enduring, it is something you are choosing.
You do not have to live the Illusion if you do not choose to.
You are here because you wish to be. If you did not so wish, it would not so be.
Yet know that the Illusion in which you live is being created by you, not for you by someone else.
Human beings who do not wish to take responsibility for the life they are experiencing say that God has created it, and that they have no choice except to endure it.
Yet I tell you that the world you live in is the way is because that is the way you have chosen it to be. When you no longer wish the world t be the way it is, you will change it.
This is a truth that not many humans accept. Because to accept it they would have to acknowledge their complicity, and this is something they cannot bring themselves to do. They would rather cast themselves in the role of unwilling victim than of unwitting co-creator.
This is understandable, of course. You could not forgive yourself if you thought that your world was the product of your own creation, the result of your own wills and desires. And why could you not forgive yourself? Because you do not think that I would forgive you.
You have been taught that there is such a thing as “the unforgivable.” And how can you forgive yourself for something that you know will not be forgiven by God? You cannot. And so you do the next best thing. You excuse yourself from having had anything to do with it. You deny responsibility for what you imagine that I would call the inexcusable sins of man.
This is tortured logic, because if you did not create the world as it is, then who did? If someone says that God created all the horrible flaws in the world, you jump to defend Me. “No, no, no,” you say. “God merely gave man free will. It is man who has created these things.”
Yet if I say, “You are right. I did not create, and I do not create, your life as it is. You are the creator of your reality,” you deny that, too.
Thus, you seek to have it both ways. God did not create these things, and you did not create these things. We are both merely sadly observing them.
But when you become really angry or frustrated with life, some of you change your tune. When things get bad enough, you are ready to blame Me after all.
“How can you let this happen?” you call out to Me. Some of you even shake your fist at the heavens.
The Illusion has turned to confusion. Not only is the world a cruel place, it has been created that way by a cruel and heartless God.
To sustain this thought, you must see yourself as separate from God, since creating a cruel and heartless world is not something that you would do. You must imagine a God who would do what you would never do, and you must see yourself as subject to His whim.
This you have done—religiously.
Still, even in this you see a contradiction, for the God of your highest understanding, also, would not do these things. So who did them? Who is doing them to this very day? Somebody must be responsible, so who is it?
Enter Satan.
To resolve the contradiction of a loving God who would do unloving things, and to escape our own responsibility in this matter, you have created a third party.
The perfect scapegoat.
The Devil.
Now, at last, everything is understandable. There is Another, who stands between what you want and what I want, and who makes us both miserable.
You are not responsible for the uncaring, unloving world in which you live. You did not create it.
“Well,” you might say, “maybe at some level I did create it, but it was not my fault. The Devil made me do it.”
A comedian’s line has become your theology.
Or is it that your theology has become a comedian’s line?
Only you can decide.
How you can see the Illusion as an illusion when it appears to be so real? And how is it that it seems so real if it is an illusion?
These are the questions humans are beginning to ask as your species moves into the experience of its own conscious evolution. Now there will be answers, and you will step out of the Illusion of Ignorance.
I will give you answers here, for your consideration.
Remember, as with all communications from God, take what you read as valuable, but not as infallible. Know that you are your own highest authority. Whether you read the Talmud or the Bible, the Bhagavad Gita or the Qur’an, the Pali Canon or the Book of Mormon, or any holy text, do not place your source authority outside of you. But, rather, go within to see if the truth you’ve found is in harmony with the truth you find in your heart. If it is, do not say to others, “This book is true.” Say, “This book is true for me.”
And if others ask you about the way you are living because of the truth you have found within you, be sure to say that yours is not a better way, yours is merely another way.
For that is what this present communication is. This communication is just another way of looking at things. If it makes the world more clear for you, fine. If it puts you more closely in touch with your own innermost truth, good. But be careful not to turn this into your new “holy scripture,” for then you will have simply replaced one set of beliefs of another.
Seek not a set of beliefs, seek an awareness of what you know. Use whatever you find that returns you to awareness. Understand that you are living an illusion, and that none of it is real. Yet the Illusion points to what is real and give you an experience of it.
How can you see the Illusion as an illusion when it appears to be so real? And how is it that it seems so real if it is an illusion?
The second question will be answered first.
The Illusion seems so real because so many people believe that it is not an illusion.
In your Alice in Wonderland world, everything is as you believe it to be. There are thousands, millions, of examples of that. Here are two.
Once, you believed that the sun revolved around the earth—and, indeed, for you it did. All your evidence proved that it did! So certain were you of this truth that you developed an entire science of astronomy around it.
Once, you believed that everything physical moved from one point to another through time and space. All your evidence proved it! So certain were you of this truth that you built an entire system of physics around it.
Now listen carefully. The wonder of these sciences and these systems is that they worked.
The astronomy that you created based on your belief that the earth was the center of the Universe worked to explain the visual phenomena you saw in the movement of the planets across the night sky. Your observation supported your belief, creating what you called knowledge.
The physics that you created based on your belief about particles of matter worked to explain the visual phenomena you saw in the physical world. Again, your observations supported your belief, creating what you called knowledge.
Only later, when you looked more closely at what you were seeing, did you change your mind about these things. Yet that change of mind did not come easily. The first people who suggested such a change of mind were called heretics, or in later times, foolish of mistaken. Their ideas of a new astronomy, with the earth revolving around the sun, or of quantum physics, in which particles of matter did not move continuous line through time and space but were seen to disappear in one place and reappear in another, were labeled spiritual and scientific blasphemy. Their proponents were discouraged, denounced, even put to death for their beliefs.
It is your beliefs that were true, the majority of you insisted. After all, were they not supported by every observation? Yet, which came first, the belief or the observation? That is the central question. That is the inquiry you did not wish to make.
Is it possible that you see what you want to see? Could it be that you observe what you expect to observe? Or perhaps more to the point, looked right past what you do not expect to observe?
I tell you, the answer is yes.
Even today, when your modern science—tired of mistakes of the past—vows to observe first, and draw conclusions later, still those conclusions cannot be trusted. That is impossible for you to look at anything objectively.
Science has concluded that nothing which is observed is unaffected by the observer. Spirituality told you this centuries ago, and now science has caught up. Your doctors and laboratories have learned that they must conduct double-blind tests during important research to even come close to guaranteeing accuracy.
In human experience, all things are considered within the context of what you think you already understand. You cannot help but do this. You know no other way to proceed.
Put another way, you are looking at the Illusion from within the Illusion.
Every conclusion you come to about the Illusion is, therefore, based on the Illusion. And so, every conclusion is an illusion.
Let this be your new insight and your constant reminder:
Every conclusion is an illusion.
Now, let us return to the first question. How can you organize the Illusion as an illusion when it seems so real?
You have just learned that the reason it seems so real is not because it is real, but because you believe so firmly that it is. Therefore, to change the way you see the Illusion, change what you believe about it.
In the past, you were told that seeing is believing. But lately a new idea has been advanced—that believing is seeing. And I tell you, this is true.
If, when you confront the Illusion, you believe it is an illusion, you will see it as an illusion, even though it seems very real. You will then be able to use the Illusion as it was intended to be used—used as a tool with which to experience Ultimate Reality.
You will remember to create the Illusion. You will cause it to be what you wish to be, rather than simply watching it present itself as you think that it has to be, out of our agreement that “that’s just the way it is.”
So just how can you do this?
You are already doing it. You simply do not know it and are thus making unconscious, rather than conscious, choices. That is, when you are making true choices at all. Most of the time you are simply accepting the choices of others.
Your choice has been to choose what others have chosen. And so, you re-live the cultural story of your forebears—as they did of theirs, even unto the seventh generation.
The day that you stop choosing what has been chosen for you will be the moment of your liberation.
You will not then escape the Illusion but be liberated from it. You will step out of the Illusion, but will continue to live with it, free of its ability to control you or your reality.
You will never choose to end the Illusion, once you understand its purpose, until your own purpose is fulfilled.
Your purpose is not only to know and experience Who You Really Are, but to create Who You Next Will Be. It is your function to re-create yourself anew in every single Moment of Now, in the next grandest version of the greatest vision you ever held about Who You Are. This is the process you have called evolution.
Yet you need not be affected by this process in any negative way. You can be in this world but not of it.
When you are, you will begin to experience the world as you choose to experience it. You will then understand itself to be an action rather than a reaction; something that you are making, not something that you are having.
When you understand this, everything in your live will change. When enough of you understand this, everything on your planet will change.
Those who have understood this secret have been called Masters. Those who have taught this secret have been called avatars. Those who have lived this secret have been called blesséd.
Therefore, blesséd be.
To live as enlightened Master, you must become a heretic and blasphemer, for you will not believe what everyone else believes, and others will deny your new truth even as you deny their old one.
You will deny that the world as others are experiencing it is real, as did those who denied that the world was flat. As in those days, this will fly race of what seems incontrovertible, based on the appearance of things. As in those days, this will generate argument and disagreement, and you will set sail across stormy oceans to discover endless horizons. And, as in those days, you will live in a new world.
This is the world that you have been waiting to create, and which you have been meant to experience, from the beginning of time. Time, too, is an illusion, so it might more correctly be said “since the Illusion began.”
Always remember: The Illusion is not something you are enduring, it is something you are choosing.
You do not have to live the Illusion if you do not choose to.
You are here because you wish to be. If you did not so wish, it would not so be.
Yet know that the Illusion in which you live is being created by you, not for you by someone else.
Human beings who do not wish to take responsibility for the life they are experiencing say that God has created it, and that they have no choice except to endure it.
Yet I tell you that the world you live in is the way is because that is the way you have chosen it to be. When you no longer wish the world t be the way it is, you will change it.
This is a truth that not many humans accept. Because to accept it they would have to acknowledge their complicity, and this is something they cannot bring themselves to do. They would rather cast themselves in the role of unwilling victim than of unwitting co-creator.
This is understandable, of course. You could not forgive yourself if you thought that your world was the product of your own creation, the result of your own wills and desires. And why could you not forgive yourself? Because you do not think that I would forgive you.
You have been taught that there is such a thing as “the unforgivable.” And how can you forgive yourself for something that you know will not be forgiven by God? You cannot. And so you do the next best thing. You excuse yourself from having had anything to do with it. You deny responsibility for what you imagine that I would call the inexcusable sins of man.
This is tortured logic, because if you did not create the world as it is, then who did? If someone says that God created all the horrible flaws in the world, you jump to defend Me. “No, no, no,” you say. “God merely gave man free will. It is man who has created these things.”
Yet if I say, “You are right. I did not create, and I do not create, your life as it is. You are the creator of your reality,” you deny that, too.
Thus, you seek to have it both ways. God did not create these things, and you did not create these things. We are both merely sadly observing them.
But when you become really angry or frustrated with life, some of you change your tune. When things get bad enough, you are ready to blame Me after all.
“How can you let this happen?” you call out to Me. Some of you even shake your fist at the heavens.
The Illusion has turned to confusion. Not only is the world a cruel place, it has been created that way by a cruel and heartless God.
To sustain this thought, you must see yourself as separate from God, since creating a cruel and heartless world is not something that you would do. You must imagine a God who would do what you would never do, and you must see yourself as subject to His whim.
This you have done—religiously.
Still, even in this you see a contradiction, for the God of your highest understanding, also, would not do these things. So who did them? Who is doing them to this very day? Somebody must be responsible, so who is it?
Enter Satan.
To resolve the contradiction of a loving God who would do unloving things, and to escape our own responsibility in this matter, you have created a third party.
The perfect scapegoat.
The Devil.
Now, at last, everything is understandable. There is Another, who stands between what you want and what I want, and who makes us both miserable.
You are not responsible for the uncaring, unloving world in which you live. You did not create it.
“Well,” you might say, “maybe at some level I did create it, but it was not my fault. The Devil made me do it.”
A comedian’s line has become your theology.
Or is it that your theology has become a comedian’s line?
Only you can decide.
Understanding the Purpose of the Illusions
13. Understanding the Purpose of the Illusions
There is a way to end the confusion, there is a way to see the Illusion as an Illusion, and that is to use the Illusion.
You will know that the Illusion is not real when you see that you can easily manipulate it.
You may claim that you cannot do this. You may say that this is a big order, more than you are up to. Yet humans consciously create illusions every day, and live within them.
Do you know anyone who sets his clock or watch ahead fifteen minutes in order to never be late?
There are those on your planet who do this! They actually set their clock or their watch five or ten minutes ahead of the time that it actually is. Then when they look see what time it is, they motivate themselves to hurry up, because they are pretending that it is several later than it really is.
Some people actually forget that they are playing this little trick on themselves, and think that it really is the time that it is not. This is when the Illusion no longer serves them. It does not serve its intended purpose.
The person who understands that the time on his watch is an illusion that he has created himself relaxes when he sees the time, because he knows that he has a few more minutes. He goes into high gear and becomes very efficient, precisely because he is relaxed. He understands that the Illusion is not the reality.
The person who has temporarily forgotten that the time on his watch is an illusion, and one that he has created himself, is filled with anxiety because he thinks that the Illusion is real.
Thus, two people have two entirely different reactions to the same circumstance. One experiences the illusion as an illusion, and the other experiences it as reality.
Only when an illusion is recognized as an illusion and lived as an illusion can it lead to an experience of Ultimate Reality. Then it serves the purpose of its creator.
You now understand much better.
The way to use the Illusion is to know that is an illusion, and the way to know it that it is an Illusion is to use it. The process is circular, like Life itself.
It begins with your denial of the Illusion as having anything to do with reality. For a very long time you have been denying Ultimate Reality. You have been denying Who I Am, and Who You Really Are. Now you will simply turn your denial around.
You might call this denial “reversal.”
Look around you and make a simple declaration: Nothing in my world is real.
It is that simple.
I have told you before, in many ways at many times. I am telling it to you again, here.
Nothing that you see is real.
It is your watch, set ahead ten minutes.
You are actually “watching yourself.” That is, you are deluding yourself into thinking that what is not so, is so.
But you must watch out, because you can forget easily that you are living within an illusion of your own creation.
Some of you may feel depressed when you are told that what you are experiencing on your planet is all make-believe. Yet do not be downhearted, for your world is your greatest gift, a wonder for you to behold, a treasure for you to enjoy.
Life in physical realm is glorious, indeed, and its purpose is to bring you happiness through the awareness and the declaration, the expression and the fulfillment, of Who You Really Are. Go, therefore, into this magnificent world of your creation, and make your lifetime an extraordinary statement and a breathtaking experience of the most glorious idea that you have ever had about your self.
Remember that every act is an act of self-definition. Every thought carries the energy of creation. Every world is a declaration of what is true for you.
Look to see what you are doing today. Is this how you choose to define yourself?
Look to see what you are thinking today. Is this what you wish to create?
Look to see what you are saying today. Is that what you desire to be so?
Each moment of your life is a holy moment, a moment of creation. Each moment is a new beginning. In each, you are born again.
This is your journey to mastery. It is a journey that will lead you out of the nightmare of your own constructions and into that wondrous dream which your life was intended to be. It is a journey that will lead you to your meeting with the Creator.
There is a way to end the confusion, there is a way to see the Illusion as an Illusion, and that is to use the Illusion.
You will know that the Illusion is not real when you see that you can easily manipulate it.
You may claim that you cannot do this. You may say that this is a big order, more than you are up to. Yet humans consciously create illusions every day, and live within them.
Do you know anyone who sets his clock or watch ahead fifteen minutes in order to never be late?
There are those on your planet who do this! They actually set their clock or their watch five or ten minutes ahead of the time that it actually is. Then when they look see what time it is, they motivate themselves to hurry up, because they are pretending that it is several later than it really is.
Some people actually forget that they are playing this little trick on themselves, and think that it really is the time that it is not. This is when the Illusion no longer serves them. It does not serve its intended purpose.
The person who understands that the time on his watch is an illusion that he has created himself relaxes when he sees the time, because he knows that he has a few more minutes. He goes into high gear and becomes very efficient, precisely because he is relaxed. He understands that the Illusion is not the reality.
The person who has temporarily forgotten that the time on his watch is an illusion, and one that he has created himself, is filled with anxiety because he thinks that the Illusion is real.
Thus, two people have two entirely different reactions to the same circumstance. One experiences the illusion as an illusion, and the other experiences it as reality.
Only when an illusion is recognized as an illusion and lived as an illusion can it lead to an experience of Ultimate Reality. Then it serves the purpose of its creator.
You now understand much better.
The way to use the Illusion is to know that is an illusion, and the way to know it that it is an Illusion is to use it. The process is circular, like Life itself.
It begins with your denial of the Illusion as having anything to do with reality. For a very long time you have been denying Ultimate Reality. You have been denying Who I Am, and Who You Really Are. Now you will simply turn your denial around.
You might call this denial “reversal.”
Look around you and make a simple declaration: Nothing in my world is real.
It is that simple.
I have told you before, in many ways at many times. I am telling it to you again, here.
Nothing that you see is real.
It is your watch, set ahead ten minutes.
You are actually “watching yourself.” That is, you are deluding yourself into thinking that what is not so, is so.
But you must watch out, because you can forget easily that you are living within an illusion of your own creation.
Some of you may feel depressed when you are told that what you are experiencing on your planet is all make-believe. Yet do not be downhearted, for your world is your greatest gift, a wonder for you to behold, a treasure for you to enjoy.
Life in physical realm is glorious, indeed, and its purpose is to bring you happiness through the awareness and the declaration, the expression and the fulfillment, of Who You Really Are. Go, therefore, into this magnificent world of your creation, and make your lifetime an extraordinary statement and a breathtaking experience of the most glorious idea that you have ever had about your self.
Remember that every act is an act of self-definition. Every thought carries the energy of creation. Every world is a declaration of what is true for you.
Look to see what you are doing today. Is this how you choose to define yourself?
Look to see what you are thinking today. Is this what you wish to create?
Look to see what you are saying today. Is that what you desire to be so?
Each moment of your life is a holy moment, a moment of creation. Each moment is a new beginning. In each, you are born again.
This is your journey to mastery. It is a journey that will lead you out of the nightmare of your own constructions and into that wondrous dream which your life was intended to be. It is a journey that will lead you to your meeting with the Creator.
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