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 subjective because
it is only through the fact that you are perceiving it that you
can know anything. All experiences of sight, sound, touch, taste,
smell, feelings, thoughts, subtle energies, etc. depend completely
upon you being there to perceive them. 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 people and
objects actually does exist; it just does not exist outside of
you, as it has always seemed.
"The grand 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 were a world outside of yourself, you wouldn't
be able to know anything about it, except through your perceptions
of it. You must rely upon your perceptions to bring you the facts
about things, and your perceptions and the facts they bring are
all within you, they are part of you.
"You have had some experiences that can help you validate
this truth. For instance, you know that if ten people witness
an accident, there will be ten different reports of what happened.
Some will be quite different from others, some will be similar,
but each will be unique. In recounting the 'facts' of the accident,
each witness is limited by the filters of their unique perceptions
and point of view and by their memories of those perceptions,
which are also their own perceptions."
The World is Part of You
"Since the world you perceive is not
outside of you as it has seemed to be, and is actually inside
of a you larger than your conditioning has allowed, your actual
relationship to the world is quite different than what your culture
has taught you. Your parents, teachers, peers, and even your
habits of thought have all told you that you are only a small
part of a much larger world. Although this has certainly seemed
to be true, it has not been a full and correct understanding
of things.
"The truth is that you are much larger and grander than
you've been taught. Your true beingness includes all of Creation.
The outside world of your personal self is actually inside of
the larger Being you truly are. At the core of your true identity
are the Creators of the Universe, the Universal Feminine and
myself, the Universal Masculine."
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?
"In only one sentence you have asked
three very powerful questions. I will answer each in turn. The
first question is, 'Is my pain real or only a perception?' Yes
it is real, and will be healed more quickly when it is honored
as real. And yes, it is your perception and therefore you are
responsible for it no matter what person or situation outside
of you may seem to be causing it. The pain is a guest in your
venue; the way it arrived there is not important.
"The first thing you can do is make it feel welcome. Next,
take whatever time is necessary to find acceptance for it, as
you might for a young child who would be feeling pain like that.
Then if you would like help, you can go inside and ask the Universal
Feminine and me to help you understand the pain and help you
bring healing to it, and We will. The Four
Steps to Wholeness is a complete formula for healing pain
of all kinds."
How Can I Change My Perceptions?
"The second question is 'How do I change
my perceptions?' You can change your unwanted perceptions by
first choosing a new attitude toward them. Begin by shifting
your approach from trying to get away from or push away an unwanted
perception. Instead explore the energy of the feeling in your
body that was triggered by your perception. Then bring the healing
medicine of love to the part of yourself that has been holding
the pain.
"The most important, valuable and probably 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 your resistance
to the experience itself that transforms a message from a distressed
part into 'pain.' The meaning or interpretation that you give
to the experience has been that this perception is somehow 'bad.'
The messenger has become a villain, and yet the same perception
on one day may feel pleasurable, and then painful on another.
"This is not a feature of the perception, but rather the
result of your interpretation or judgment of the perception.
The truth is that you are perceiving a sensation, in this case
an emotional feeling. You can choose to interpret the feeling
as 'pain' or as a message from a lost part of you. There is much
more on the problems that are created as a result of the universal
conditioning to avoid pain, and we will get into it in depth
when I tell the story of how pain first came to be in Creation
in the healing class, The Quest for the
Mother"
How Can I Have More of What I Want in Life?
"The answer to the third question, 'How
can I have more of what I want in life?' contains the answers
to the first two questions. It is a little-known secret that
emotional pain, and physical pain for that matter, has been hiding
something very valuable to you as an evolving Being. Under every
'negative' feeling there is a desire that has been denied. The
desire came first, vibrant and alive, shimmering with expectancy.
Then came the denial of the desire. The denial it experienced
caused the desire energy to contract, which in turn caused the
pain. Now the 'negative' feeling of the contracted energy is
all that has been left for consciousness to experience.
"However, when you have found the energy of the painful
feeling in your body, you have an opportunity to liberate the
desire hidden under it that had been twisted and trampled upon
by being denied. When you have brought healing to the feeling,
when you have true unconditional loving acceptance for the energy
of it as it is in your body, you also bring healing to
the desire that had been thwarted by denial.
"When you heal the part and its desire, its magnetic energy
returns to the rest of the Universal Feminine in you, and your
manifesting Will becomes strong enough to draw the object of
your desire. Desires that are free to be as they are and that
are loved just that way can open the space necessary for their
fulfillment.
"When desires are ignored or harmed through denial, they
cannot open the space for what they would otherwise magnetize.
In other words, your manifesting Will, the ability to have what
you want, has been held hostage by the pain that has concealed
your desires from you."
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 consensus reality
that is created through you in concert with the others in your
world. This happens at a deeply unconscious, collective transpersonal
level. Even the seemingly densest parts of your world such as
trees, the sky, oceans and other physical 'realities' are being
created by Deity from within you. The reason it seems that you
are not part of this creating of your world is because you are
not aware that you are in fact doing it, just as you have been
unaware that the world is within 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
came from outside of you, and yet those things did not come through
a 'dubious' filter. However, those lessons have formed 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' is always eventually proven to be untrue,
even though it seems certain until it's 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 how things are. This new and deeper understanding was the
foundation upon which Newton formulated his model of reality.
"Newton's model has now been 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 to relativity if the
Sun revolves around the Earth, or the Earth revolves around the
Sun. Everything is 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 real, including the whole
universe, 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 happens.
"I am creating the universe in every moment, 'recreating'
it you may say. But where am I as I create it? The answer is
that 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 only rarely
been aware has been called various things, such as 'God Consciousness,'
'Cosmic Consciousness,' 'Self Realization' or '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've become accustomed, with 'facts' other than what you were
taught in school. And most significantly, with understandings
other than what your mind has been telling you about the nature
of reality.
"This has been my point in opening this channel of communication,
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 parts of
you that experience 'individual consciousness,' the parts that
feels disconnected from your source, that believe you are just
one object among billions of other objects.
"To one such part of you, the doubtful Newtonian physicist,
I say there is much more to you than meets the eye. For instance,
there are other parts of you that can 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 Grandfather's
grace flows into your life, and this is where you can find me.
Transcendent experiences like this, however, have not played
well in the smaller venue of the separate, individual self.
"God Consciousness is the kind of experience that has been
easy to forget. It doesn't fit in and therefore has not been
validated by your culture, physics, or the education system.
In fact, your culture and customs discourage this kind of awareness.
They tell you that experiences of eternal oneness, peace and
power are flights of fancy that are dangerous to believe as true.
"The saddest part of this has been that
although when they are happening these experiences have the unmistakable
ring of Truth and answer all questions, they have later been
denied and forgotten because they were not in agreement with
the relative 'truths' you were taught in the early lessons you
learned as a child.
"I want you to know that you can decide
who you want to be and how you want to be. If you already have
chosen and you no longer like your choice, you can choose again.
And I will help you with this if you
ask me."
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Class, Lesson Two: Projection and Perception
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