Truth and Reality Class
Introduction: Basic Principles
"Welcome. This class will begin with
a discussion of reality and the ways it is designed, assembled
and understood. Later on we'll discuss the difference between
relative truth and the Whole Truth, and how the realization of
the difference can cause awakening. First, let's set forth some
basic principles:
"Reality comes in levels or layers.
"There is always another level.
"There are two sides to everything in
existence.
"Nothing can exist without its antithesis
to balance it.
"Everything is made of energy.
"The two fundamental energies are outward
moving and inward drawing.
"As above, so below.
"As within, so without.
"Reality is relative and finite.
"Truth is universal and eternal.
"Reality is a truth, with a small "t".
"Truth, with a capital "T",
is independent of any reality, it includes all realities.
"Reality is a subjective experience and
can be explained.
"The Truth is obvious, needs no explanation
and can not be captured with words."
Lesson One: Where is the World?
Your Venue
"This is Spirit. We will first discuss reality
as you experience it and in later classes, Truth as I know it.
As noted above, the Whole Truth is universal and does not depend
on anyone's perception of it. Reality, on the other hand does
not exist except in the mind of the one who is perceiving it.
"The experience of reality is always
a subjective experience because it is only through perception
that you can know of anything. Any experience of sight, sound,
touch, taste, smell, feelings, thoughts, subtle energies, etc.
is completely dependent upon you being there to perceive it.
There has been much said by your philosophers and mystics about
the illusory nature of the world. The truth is that the world
with all its beings and objects exists. But it does not exist
'outside' of you as it seems.
"The illusion has been that there is
an objective, outside world that you can know and experience.
The truth is that the only evidence you will ever have of an
outside world must come to you through your perceptions -- and
your perceptions are within you, they're part of you. Even if
there was a world outside of yourself, you wouldn't be able to
know anything about it except for your perceptions of it. You
must rely on your perceptions to bring you the facts of anything,
and your perceptions and the facts they bring are all part of
you.
"You have had many experiences that can
validate this truth for you. You know that if ten people witness
an accident, there will be ten different reports of what happened.
Some will be quite different from each other, others will be
similar, but each will be unique. Each witness is limited by
their specific perceptions and their memories, which are also
perceptions."
The World is Part of You
"Since the world is not outside of you
as it seems but rather is inside of you, your relationship to
the world is obviously very different than what your culture
teaches. Your parents and teachers and your habits of thought
all tell you that you are a part of the world. Although this
is what seems to be true, it is not good understanding.
"The truth is that you are much larger
and grander than you've been taught. Your true beingness includes
all of Creation -- the world is part of you. The deepest and
truest part of your being is me and the Mother, and we're not
part of anything else. Even if you were part of something more
than yourself and your perceptions, it wouldn't matter because
there is no way you could know of its existence."
You Own the World
"In order to know about anything, you
must perceive it -- and when you perceive anything at all, it
belongs to you. It is your perception and it resides inside of
you, the perceiver. To perceive it is to own it.
"You own the world because its existence
is in your perceptions, in the place inside I'll call your domain
or 'venue'. This is your show and you're responsible for it whether
your involvement is as a performer or only a spectator.
"The two essential elements of reality
are the perceiver and their perceptions. The perceptions belong
to the perceiver, not the other way around. The world belongs
to you because it is you and only you who can perceive it."
You are Hosting the World
"Because the world exists inside of you
and belongs to you, you are essentially the host or hostess of
the world. You are the innkeeper who accommodates all of your
perceptions. All apparent beings, objects, feelings, thoughts
and facts of the world are actually perceptions which reside
in the space you provide for them inside of yourself. If there
is someone or something in your life, it is because you have
invited them to be a guest at your inn. If you feel a certain
circumstance, person or event in your life is not of your choosing,
then you are asleep to your role as venue owner and host.
"If this is a new idea for you, please
open yourself to even more understanding here. There
are other guests in your world as well. Not only are you host
to all of your current perceptions, but also to every perception
you've ever had, including the ones you thought you'd disowned.
Your conscious mind is a relatively small bubble floating on
the surface of the great unconscious part of your mind that contains
all perceptions presently out of your awareness."
When the Host Sleeps
"Just as there is an apparent outside
world that contains other people, there are parts of the self
who vie for consciousness and expression. Your inner parts are
like the people in the 'outer' world who are guests in your venue.
If you are awake to yourself as the host, you can choose whom
to invite into your venue,when they should come and when they
should leave."
"If you are asleep to your hosting role,
both inner and outer 'guests', arrive and disappear in what may
seem like a random or even chaotic order of events. Even when
you think you have a situation well in hand, it can turn in a
direction you did not anticipate. This is not because there is
an outer objective world that you do not control. This is because
you have been asleep to Who You Truly Are and your role as host
of your own world."
When the Host Awakens
"This is the turning point of the drama
playing in your venue where the victim becomes the liberator.
As you wake up and become aware of your true identity and your
responsibilities as the world's host, you regain your greatness,
freedom, power and strength of purpose that was lost when you
fell asleep long ago.
"Awakening to the liberation and return
to power of the individual has been the true aim of all religions,
all art, philosophies and sciences. It has been the message behind
all prophecy. The Truth can be known. Although it is beyond the
power of words to express, you will know the Truth when you are
fully awake.
"In the next lesson we will discuss the
phenomenon of projection as it pertains to reality creation and
waking up."
Lesson One Discussion (immediately below)
Truth and Reality Class,
Lesson Two: Projection and Perception
God's Class: Home Room
Truth and Reality Class
Lesson One Discussion
What do I do with
my perception of this reality I experience as pain and how do
I change my perceptions to include what I want?
"You have asked three very powerful questions.
I will rephrase and answer each of them. First, 'Is my pain real
or only a perception?' Yes it is real, and will be healed more
quickly when it is honored as real. Yes, it is your perception
and therefore you are responsible for it no matter what person
or situation may seem to be 'causing' it on the 'outside'. The
pain is a guest in your venue. The first
thing you can do is make it feel welcome. Next, if you want it
to heal, take whatever time is necessary to find acceptance for
it as you might for a child who is unhappy and crying. Then if
you like, go inside and ask me to help you understand and heal
the pain, and I will. The Four Steps to
Wholeness is a complete formula for healing pain of all kinds.
The second question is, How do I change my
perceptions?
"You change perceptions through the Sacred
Act of Choice. The most important, valuable and probably the
least understood gift you have been given is Free Will. You and
only you can choose what you will perceive and what you will
make of your perceptions. It is important to understand that
it is not the feeling or the perception of the feeling of pain
that hurts. It is the meaning or interpretation that you give
to the perception, your resistance to it. The same perception
on one day may feel pleasurable and on another day feel painful.
"This is not a feature of the perception,
but rather the result of your interpretation or judgment of the
perception. The truth is you are perceiving a sensation, in this
case an emotional feeling. You can choose to interpret
the feeling as 'pain' or as something else. There is much more
to this, and it will be covered as we discuss the 'nuts and bolts'
of the healing process in the healing class, The
Quest for the Mother."
God, I "understand" to a degree
that we all create our own reality, and that we're invited to
drive the bus. But isn't it true that
some things are real, and they are not a matter of perception,
but just the "real" thing? I want to be creating harmony
and love and bliss, but I can't let go of the Newtonian model
of what's real. This is a stopping point for me.
"There is a 'baseline' consentual reality
that is created through you and in concert with the others in
your world. This happens at a deeply unconscious transpersonal
level. The seemingly densest parts of your world like trees,
the sky, ocean and other physical 'realities' are created by
me, from within you. The reason it seems like you are not creating
certain parts of your world is because you are not aware that
you are doing it, just a you have been unaware that I,
the creator, am you.
"You are right to question what I have
said here because it comes from a source outside of yourself.
Interestingly, the things you first learned at home and in school
did not come through a 'dubious' filter, and yet they form the
standard against which you now compare new information. The Newtonian
model can seem more real than your own perceptions and logic,
not because it is the correct model, but because it explains
things in a way that seems to be true, and more importantly it's
the hallmark of your paradigm, it's 'what everyone knows'.
"I would like to point out that 'what
everyone knows' once included the 'fact' that the Earth is flat
and there is danger of falling off the edge if you sail too far
out into the ocean. 'What everyone knows', has always proven
to be untrue eventually, even though it seemed certain until
it was questioned and disproved. For instance, it was quite difficult
for your ancestors to let go of the idea that the Sun, Moon and
stars revolve around the Earth. Once they did, however, they
could get a much deeper understanding of physics. This new understanding
was the foundation upon which Newton formulated his model of
reality.
"Now Newton's model is threatened. Einstein
has muddied Newton's water and now that 'everyone knows' there
are four dimensions of space-time and everything is relative,
it doesn't matter which way you look at it. It makes no difference
if the Sun revolves around the Earth, or the Earth revolves around
the Sun. It's all relative, depending on your point of view.
Which brings us back to perception.
"Reality is a subjective experience because
in order for something to be 'real' it must be perceived by someone,
it must be 'realized'. If there is no perceiver, there is no
'venue' or place in which reality can exist. This raises the
issue of my perception. In a way you are asking, 'Isn't your
perception as God sufficient to make anything, including the
whole universe, real without needing me or someone else to perceive
it.?' However the question is phrased, the answer is not in how
perception works, but rather in how Creation works.
"I am creating the universe in every
moment, 're-creating' it you may say. But where am I as I create
it? The answer is I am inside of you. Most often you have been
unaware of my presence at all, let alone as the creative force
inside of you. This other level of reality of which you have
very seldom been aware has had various terms such as 'God Consciousness',
'Cosmic Consciousness', 'Self Realization' and 'Enlightenment'.
"The key to understanding how all of
this works is in the realization of a level of awareness other
than the one to which you're accustomed, other than what you
were taught in school. This is my whole point in opening this
channel of communication. I want to reach that part inside of
you that is aware of creating the universe you perceive. I want
to reach the part of you that is me. In doing this I will need
the help of the other part of you that experiences 'individual
consciousness', the part that feels disconnected from your source,
that feels like just one object among billions of other objects.
"To this part of you, the dubious Newtonian
physicist, I say there is much more to you than meets the eye.
For instance, you may remember times when you have felt connected,
powerful and at one with all that is, while at peace and secure
in the certain knowledge that all is well and will be so forever.
This is where God Consciousness begins. This is where you can
find me. Experiences like this, however, do not play well in
a venue of individual consciousness.
"God Consciousness is the kind of experience
that is easy to forget because it is not validated by your culture,
Newtonian physics or the education system. In fact, your culture
and customs discourage it. They tell you that experiences of
eternal oneness, peace and power are flights of fancy that are
dangerous to believe in.
"The saddest part of this has been that
although these experiences have the unmistakable ring of Truth
and provide the answers to all questions, they have been denied
and forgotten because they were not in agreement with the relative
'truths' you were taught in the first lessons you learned.
"The good news is that you can decide
on who and how you want to be. You can choose again, and I will
help if you ask me."
I have tried visualizing what I want, but
it doesn't work very well. How can I get it to work?
"Visualization may not be the easiest
way to get something. If what you want, however, is to get visualization
to work the short answer is to not only visualize it, but desire
it into existence. The desire that something exist coupled with
the belief that it can and does exist creates the space for it,
and holds it in existence. Desire is the most generative force
in the universe and is the only absolutely essential factor in
the existence of anything. There is much more about True Desire
in the Quest for the Mother class. In
this class, however, we will focus more on thoughts and beliefs.
"This idea that using the mind can make
things happen is heading in the right direction. Visualizing
or imaging what you want is generative. In the presence of desire,
images, thoughts and beliefs are creative, they guide creation
and help form your reality. Every being and object in existence,
every situation, movement and particle of matter had its beginning
as a thought that filled a desire. The image or thought is the
Light, the Spirit that communes with Desire to manifest and give
form to the thing.
"A less well known and even more powerful
approach to manifesting at the mental level is mentioned above.
Perform the Sacred Act of Choice. Choose the reality
you want. Choose to be what you want to be, to do what you want
to do and to have what you want to have. To choose is to decide,
and to decide is to cut off other possibilities and focus only
on the one chosen. Once you've chosen, expect the results of
what you have chosen. There will be more on this in a later lesson,
so we'll leave this topic open for now."
Next: Truth and Reality
Class, Lesson Two: Projection and Perception
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