All of life is composed of growth. Universal law requires either growth or stagnation and death. Nothing stays the same. While a river runs to the sea, its waters are self cleansing and clean. But if it is bottled up or contained, it becomes stagnate and polluted. And has the smell of death. It is not fit for drinking or sustaining life or even irrigating crops. Movement and change is inevitable, nothing stays the same.
It is a travesty that Humanity has placed the source of our greatest power in a category called religion. Those who are in power have manipulated, designed and controlled our thinking in this matter and have in effect, imprisoned our development in spiritual growth, and our ability to think and see clearly. Humanity has effectively been conditioned to value wealth and power and material accumulation as the highest single attributes and things to pursue. It has become the dominate paradigm on Earth.
But there is one phenomenon that will completely arrest and overpower this control and resulting stagnation. And that is “The Encounter”. Once you have had The Encounter with the Presence within you, your life, your thinking, and your awareness of things is never the same. Spirituality opens a new dimension in man. This dimension is not based in fear; it is based on unconditional Love. It opens feelings and helps one to understand the interconnectedness of all things, the trees, the air, flowers and even inanimate things like rocks. Every single thing on Earth and in the Universe has this connection. Spirituality and spiritual maturity makes this evident. The energy and source of this connection is the Creator.
Spirituality is the key to the door which opens this channel and allows one to have this feeling of connectedness. Because this feeling is not based in fear it allows for the release of guilt and will illuminate man’s mind and consciousness This feeling will eliminate hatred and fear in all its forms. So that when these are released, the soul, being transformed by the light and energy of God is free. So we no longer hang on to those lesser values and attributes and things that are devoid of the spirit.
When the encounter happens, man/woman becomes new creatures. So that service to our brother is possible without judgement or condemnation. It is approached with passion, caring and understanding and with knowledge and all of the glory of the spirit. This is what we must begin to develop and embrace. If we are to take the next step in our evolution this spiritual development must become a priority. If we make it a priority, all of our problems will go away, in time, because the help of Universe is just waiting for us.
So there is a dimension that man has not conquered, that appears to be hidden and is not taught in our schools or institutions of higher learning. It is only given cursory or level one introduction in religious institutions and is banned by the courts in all public forums. But this dimension is the true gold within us and is the most powerful part of every human being. But don’t tell the ego. There has been a war on spirituality for many, many eons. It is the single most important thing that has been taken from us and it is what hinders us from contact with other beings like ourselves.
Excluding technology the origin and advancement of human knowledge should not be based solely on physical scientific theory alone. This is at the heart of the debate of Evolution vs Intelligent Design. Truth is that the power structure in place over the National Scientific Institute will not even allow this debate to proceed. They say it has no place in the field of science. This is part of what has caused the lag in our growth as a race of beings. Because it creates a belief, a foundation in the physical senses alone; what you see, what you hear, what you taste, what you smell and what you touch. Belief in this manner does not open that which is of the third dimension. Because belief and faith and the workings of the spirit make no sense.
Not any physical sense. And this is the beauty of it. The senses are finite and limited but spirit is boundless. The spirit is what allows these things to be useful to our conscious minds which assist us in our daily lives. It gives energy and substance to our physical senses. We are limiting ourselves because of fear and immaturity. Only what we can discern with the five senses is what we believe in.
Well, there is another dimension. And though this dimension is restricted it is still available to all who diligently seek it. We as human being must understand what our journey is because all men have but one destiny. And that is to return to the source. So it is a struggle to acquire spiritual knowledge. But it is no more a struggle then that to make ends meet or living in the struggle for subsistence in third world countries.
But once the encounter has happened, once the awareness of the Presence has occurred, once the free flowing of knowledge and energy has begun between the Source and yourself, then nothing is limited to you. But be warned that by the time this occurs you will have grown to where your primary desire and passion have changed from the desire for materialism and selfish gain to a greater awareness of spirit and higher consciousness resulting in a desire for service to others. There will always be those who have the desire for material wealth and power which is why the education of the human race goes on.
The average, grassroots people who struggle to meet the demands of this current dominate paradigm on Earth must understand that we do have a choice. We do not have to remain slaves to this system. It is not in concert with the dominate paradigm of the Universe, it is not natural and it was not given by God. It creates monsters and makes fear and hatred the dominate emotion instead of Love.
So we must challenge ourselves to go beyond this limited state of being. We must realize that our race has digressed from its original divine state of consciousness. We have settled for a lesser level of being, of thinking and of existing. We must begin to be ever so vigilant as to the things happening around us. We must begin to question the motives of those in power and the news media who want nothing more than for us to stay as we are and not change. We must require that our elected officials be accountable for the actions. And we must deplore and demonstrate against injustice not only in the United States but in every country in the world. We in the US can no longer be concerned with just what happens within our borders. If we do this the world will suffocate us.
Lets us start to get involved with whatever we can to improve our communities. We must begin to focus our resources and energy on the elimination of poverty and sickness thereby increasing health and wealth for everyone. We must commit to a system that promotes a fair distribution of resources.The accumulation of material wealth in and of itself does more harm to an individual then it does good. Andrew Carnegie, one of the richest and powerful men of his time was quoted as saying “A man who dies wealthy, Dies in Disgrace”. He lived half of his life accumulating material wealth, and he spent the last half giving it away. He stated this because he had the epiphany, he experienced THE ENCOUNTER and it changed him. He received what the Universe demands and that is growth.
We cannot afford to be stagnant because in this Creation of God’s, there is no stagnation. It is the final stage before death. Our stagnation and our refusal to move to a higher plane to embrace that which is inevitable; to embrace that which is natural within us could be our demise. But God’s grace is everlasting and unconditional Love is just that, UNCONDITIONAL. So the Love of God is with us. Even in these hard times. All we have to do is believe it and we can accomplish anything. It was once said that impossibility is only a word to describe the degree of difficulty in reaching a goal.
Our greatest power has lain dormant in us for far too long. While the Universe advances we remain stagnant. We can no longer allow our ego to tell us that we have attained the highest civilization ever recorded on earth. I implore you; no I dare you, to ask and desperately seek the answer to the question “Who told you that?” December 21st 2012 is fast approaching, let’s get a head start.
THE MESSENGER