While you sleep and dream your illusory reality into existence, rest assured that separation from your divine Father is beyond possibility. You are eternally and permanently one with Him. He is all there is and that is where you are, as there is no other reality, no other option. Oneness with God is permanent and unchangeable. However, within the nightmare of your dream state many, many choices seem possible, all of them leading to decay and death, a very depressing and discouraging scenario. Your desire to escape from this miserable state is very natural.
You made idols (ancient and modern), which you then worshipped as gods, and you begged them to save you. These gods changed in nature over time, but your need to believe in their ability to save you from a violent universe hasn’t. You continue to offer them horrendous sacrifices to placate them for the offenses and betrayals you think you have committed, but of course there is no response, and disasters and catastrophes continue to occur.
Truly this is all illusion. You played a game, hid from God, and believed you had separated from Him, and were ashamed and horrified at what you appeared to have done. The shock you experienced was so stunning and terrifying that instead of stopping the game and returning to your ever-loving Father, you fled in fear and anguish, judging yourself unforgivable. And since then you have continued to experience unremitting fear and anxiety.
Many of you attempt to lead good lives but remain fearful and judgmental, while others try to play the system for personal gain. Neither of these approaches can possibly succeed because both depend on remaining in the dream! You need to awaken so that the dream dissolves, leaving you in the brilliant light of God’s unending love. Holding onto the dream by remaining asleep has absolutely no value whatever.
To awaken is your one task, and there are with you many loving entities who can help you and desire only to do so. God’s love for you is intense, and deep within yourself you know this; consequently, it is only a matter of time before you awaken into the divine bliss that is your heritage. Time is but an illusion you make and remake in each instant as you experience it, and you can stretch it and expand it to suit your apparent needs and desires. However, eventually it will collapse, leaving you joyfully in the eternal now. So why continue to rebuild it, along with all the pain, fear, and confusion it encompasses, when you could be using the loving energy of God, which flows through you continuously in a life-giving stream, to hasten its dissolution and your magnificent reawakening into Reality, your eternal heavenly home?
You have to choose to awaken. Your guides are with you in every moment, waiting to assist you when you do make that choice, and it is one that is inevitable. You can delay and procrastinate for as long as you wish, effectively extending time – time in which you continue to experience the unhappy and fearful nightmare that seems so real to you.
Listen to your angels, your guides, your higher self, and recognize the loving message that they have been offering you throughout your human existence: “You are missed; you are dearly loved; come home so that we can celebrate life with you again in all its divine glory.”
With so very much love, Saul.
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My friend sent this to me from a Taoist guru.
I thought it fit a lot of things.
I didn’t know where else to post it!
NOBODY NEEDS CORRECTION
And who is going to correct? The moment it is said that somebody needs correction, sooner or later somebody is needed to dominate you, to manipulate you, to make a slave out of you.
That’s why leaders down the ages have been calling and shouting from the housetops that everything needs to be corrected, everything needs to be changed? improved. If nothing needs to be corrected, they won’t be leaders any more. They live on the idea that things need to be improved, revolutions have to be done – then they are great leaders.
And nothing is ever improved, nothing can ever be improved. You can either be fast asleep or awake. And awakening is not a correction, remember. It is not correcting your sleep. If sleep is corrected that will mean a few more tranquillizers are injected in you so that you can sleep better. This is correction. New pillows, more comfortable; a new bed, more convenient; a better bedroom… these are corrections so you can remain asleep in a better way, so you can almost remain in a coma.
Sleep does not need correction. Awakening is not a correction in sleep – it is simply dropping sleep. It is moving into another kind of reality, having a totally different kind of relationship with existence.
Moralists, politicians, puritans, priests, they are always after you, calling for correction. Everything needs to be corrected, every person needs to be corrected – that is their power. The world is dominated by politicians because of it. They always go on finding what has to be corrected, and they always go on deluding you that now the correction can be done. But there is only one way: if THEY are in power then the correction can be done.
First they convince you that the correction is needed; then naturally when you become convinced, the correction is needed. And why do you become convinced? Because you are suffering – suffering because of sleep, not because of immorality; suffering not because of sin, but because you are unconscious. And they come and they say, “This is why you are suffering. A better morality, a better code of conduct, better behaviour, a better character, and your suffering will disappear.”
And you start correcting yourself, and you cannot correct – you need help, you need a priest, a guide to guide you. You need a leader! First they convince you correction is needed, and then naturally they come by the back door with all the paraphernalia to correct you. You become slaves. That has been the trick down the ages. People have been dominated; people have been reduced into things. People have been condemned, people have been praised – but all the same they have been dominated through condemnation, through praise.
This is the great conspiracy. I would like to tell you once and for all: there is no need for any correction. You are not to be improved upon. Then what is needed? Awakening is needed, not correction. Not better morality, not better ethical conduct – no. Just consciousness. And with consciousness, morality comes of its own accord.
In deep sleep, unconscious, how can you correct yourself? At the most, you can have a little better dreams. Maybe not in black and white – technicolour dreams, psychedelic dreams, but you can only have better dreams in sleep. You cannot have reality in sleep.
You need only one thing.
And corrections are millions, and still they never suffice. You put one thing right on this corner, and something else goes wrong on another – because your sleep keeps a certain balance. Have you not watched? You stop smoking and then you start chewing gum. You stop one thing and you have to start another. And it is the same old game! YOU only go on changing things; you remain the same.
Corrections are millions. There is no end to them; you can go on correcting and Correcting and you will never be correct. You will never be right. You can put ALL the wrongs right, and you will find yourself still wrong – because deep down you are still un.conscious, you don’t know who you are.
The first and the only step is to know who you are, is to become aware.
No correction is needed, just awareness is needed. Become more alert. No character is needed, because all character is false if you are not conscious, and all character is a bondage if you are not conscious. And all character is nothing but chains – it doesn’t bring freedom. All morality is hypocrisy – if you are not aware, if you are not conscious.
So, to me, religion means only one thing: to be more conscious, to live more consciously.
DOES ANYONE OR ANYTHING NEED CORRECTION? IT PUZZLES ME.
It has puzzled everybody down the ages. Forget about correction. Put your total energy into awakening.
There are only two ways to be: unconscious or conscious. Choose….
wow that is long, sorry didn’t realize it was!!