…Throughout this work, we will relate certain experiences the authors
have had with souls who'd lost their way following separation from the physical
body. Some such communications occurred spontaneously during the course of
weekly group meditations. During those meditation sessions, the departed
sometimes spoke through one of the participants with highly developed
channeling abilities. The information was then corroborated by Carmen by way of
her intuitive writing. This was done "blind," that is, without either
participant knowing what the other was receiving.
…Creation and Illusory
World
To understand the process of death, we first
need to understand the meaning of life: who we are, where we come from, where
we are going, and the purpose of our earthly existence. Here is something our
teachers have told us:
Our known universe, as
well as the universes unknown to us, are made up of an energy that comes from the
great fountain of life we call God, or the Creator, or the Great Ultimate, or
just universal consciousness. This energy resonates in various ways, at
different rhythms or vibrational frequencies, thus forming diverse
manifestations of physicality and consciousness. God is unending movement and
growth; He could not be unmoving or He would cease to be. As life is change and
motion, utter stillness would constitute death. Thus, God chose, and chooses
even now, to self-manifest by expanding into multitudinous forms and then reabsorb
them into the Whole.
In the beginning, only He
existed. As He became aware of His own existence, he wanted to experiment with
His experience of Himself and so self-divided into minute particles, giving each
the will to do as it pleased. His essence is pure consciousness, which includes
the qualities of infinite wisdom, love, compassion, balance, harmony, and joy.
And so began creation. Those sparks of consciousness created the various
dimensions using the raw material of the Creator, or universal energy. We can
say, then, that God manifests by way of His creations and lives through them.
As God's energy
materializes, beings arise that are direct emanations of His essence and who
therefore bear His essence into different realities and universes. Those
entities, having great power and intelligence, are responsible for the creation
of worlds and of creatures to serve as vessels for the sparks of divine
consciousness that continue to evolve. This physical universe that we humans inhabit,
is the densest of all realms and so is where we have come to verify our true
nature. For it is exactly this density into which we must submerge ourselves to
forget who we are and where we come from.
As human beings, we are
evolving creatures. Having come from the Divine Light, light is all we are and
all we knew. In order to understand God's greatness, wisdom, and magnificence,
we must isolate ourselves and experience what Is Not. We have to enter an illusory dualistic world where
everything has an opposite: light and darkness, good and evil, pleasure and
pain, joy and suffering. "Go out from Paradise, and eat from the tree of
knowledge, both good and evil.”
While we were a part of the Absolute, we could
not truly appreciate our magnificence, for we'd never experienced anything to
compare it to. Though only He truly existed, in order to truly know Himself, God
needed to invent an opposite of some sort: unlovingness, egotism, cruelty, and
fear. So we live these experiences, along with their inharmonious effects, in
order to realize what we truly are: love, faith and harmony. By experiencing
the illusion and its hollow results, we gradually come to understand what Is through its juxtaposition to what Is Not.
…The following is a message from a soul already in the spirit world:
The truth is within
each individual, but as long as we have not achieved cosmic consciousness, we cannot
understand its totality. Once we are disembodied, we understand the concepts
with much more clarity, as we are no longer immersed in the density of our physical
bodies. We will not reach the Creator’s wisdom, however, until we have passed
through all the stages that lead us back to Him.
Oftentimes we believe
there is only one path to God, the one each of us has chosen as our own.
Everyone believes they possess the absolute truth while everyone else is wrong.
Yet the actual state of human consciousness is a thousand light years away from
being able to receive and understand divine truth in its totality--. The
different concepts that humans have are but glimpses of what truly is. It is
not that some of us are right and others wrong. Rather, some aspects of our
beliefs correspond to one aspect of the truth, interpreted by way of our
limited awareness.
How can the Creator favor
any of his children over the others if He loves us all the same? Why would he
reveal Himself to only a select few of the billions of human beings that have
lived on our planet? We all have within our being that spark of His
consciousness where the absolute truth burns. The point is to manifest that
truth. But if, instead of eradicating the ego, which believes it possesses the
truth, we become dogmatic, we will be
covering the internal light that can only emerge by way of humility and love.
The day our posture is that we do not possess the truth but rather are open to
receiving it, we will have gone far toward actually finding it.
