Excerpts from the book The Power of Illusion
Excerpts from the book The Power of Illusion
Contents
Communication
Truth
The Way to Live When You Don’t Know How
Living Through Difficult Times
Creation & Destruction
Moving On
Faith
Showing Up To Life
Wake Up!
Communication
This is the means for the soul to develop. We bounce our current state of evolution against another, we get a response from them and we decide if we want to react to it by standing up to our false beliefs or standing up to our truth. We do this over and over again until we get so tired that we decide to take a break and not communicate with the world. Isolation is needed in order to have a centered experience of one’s own self. Once this experience is complete, we can go back to the world and reconnect more fully from a place devoid of any neediness or pre conceived beliefs.
When we have fear of intimacy we encounter communication issues because we are often engaged in lashing out in anger or waging a silent war. Somewhere along the way we forget to have an open hearted conversation with full permission to be wrong and to be open to learn from everyone. The secret to ending war lies in these words. When we are open to being wrong we are not defensive and listen clearly without any filters set by our minds. This gives us the humility to recognize a profound teaching from any inanimate object and not just from enlightened teachers.
How do you stand up for yourself when you have never done it before? With love in your heart, observe what happened to make you feel not heard in a relationship. Evaluate if this is something that is core to your emotional wellbeing. If it is important, communicate to the person what you have experienced, what you will no longer support and what your expectations are. Do this with love and thank the person for being your teacher in helping you to understand yourself better and to stand up to your truth. If the person does not honor your wishes, break the relationship fully, which will give the other time to think. Be open to the person coming back to you or not wanting to be with you again. When anxieties arise, do not dismay. Hold on to the angels, do your daily homework of unconscious dumping and hug yourself and repeat many times, “I love you and I bless you”. You are worthy of someone who truly honors you. Living a lie for fear of loneliness is a sure recipe for misery, which gets aggravated over time.
Communication is about honoring the other person’s thoughts and providing the space for another to express them freely without fear. It is about coming from a heart open place in dealing with conflicts. When differences in opinions arise, we can let go of our ideas and go with another person’s belief. It is not about being right; it is about being in the knowing. This does not mean we become a doormat. When we come from a heart open place, we will know when to walk away and when to stay. This knowledge will not be available when caught in a power struggle. When we relinquish all control, it becomes very easy to move with the flow. A dance takes place in silence and tremendous healing happens to those who interact with one who is grounded in the knowing of what is real.
Truth
(channeled teachings from Frodham - Ascended Masters)
This is a word that has caused a lot of confusion in your minds. The truth is one that sets you free from holding on to your beliefs, ideas and opinions about anything and anyone. The truth is the vehicle through which the divine moves through you. It is clear and concise in its communication, and you will never be in doubt of its message, as long as you are centered and completely in line with this movement inside you. The way to be in alignment is to stop questioning your inner guidance. Even when you make a mistake, its okay, everything is bringing greater clarity to all light workers. Everyone has access to this truth; even the one caught in darkness. They are also listening to a movement within themselves when not blocked by fear. You chose to ignore the message since you did not want to give up what you ‘thought’ precious, like your false values and beliefs! You need to know that once something is written in stone it is no longer in the flow of life. A truth at one point may change at another point in time. You may be asked to create at one point and rest at another. There is no book written on the truth as it is not a constant. However, the following guidelines will help you stay open to receiving the truth:
1. Utmost honesty with self at all times, even at the cost of losing what you hold as valuable.
2. Never to ever give in to baser instincts for personal gain. Even if you do, remember no one is judging you.
3. Utmost awareness of every movement inside and outside of you without judgment. Awareness opens your heart center to receive messages of greater subtlety.
4. Measure your progress by the amount of peace in your life.
5. As you become more and more aware, your shadows will be revealed to you – own them and release them. Own the pain it has caused you and release it back to the source.
6. Be a child at all times – open and innocent to the glory around you.
7. Always be a student and realize that you know nothing. When you have this attitude the resistance within you will fall away and the simplest and most profound teachings will be made visible to you every waking moment. This is how the divine talks to you. It is not always the big bang catastrophic incident that raises your awareness.
8. When in doubt about a teaching, let it go completely from yourself into the light. Release it and ask the Father to bring more clarity and openness. If there is truth in the teaching it will be given back to you in a way you will know for sure. Sometimes, we deny the truth, which is ok. Denial is giving you time to recuperate from past hurts. When you are ready, you will hear it. Pray for readiness and all fears to be removed from you knowing you are in divine hands.
9. The movement of truth is clearest in its reception when your body is clear of toxins, your intestines are clear and you are breathing deep into your lower abdomen so all the cells receive precious oxygen. Eliminate food which does not suit you.
10. Surrender to life every moment. Surrender to the force that is in you, outside of you and beyond your mind as you know of it. Surrender to God.
The Way to Live When You Don’t Know How You come to a point in your spiritual evolution where you simply get in the divine flow and no longer create your own confused path. At that point, you are not given a roadmap ahead of time, you simply are shown each moment what to do. The control freak in you will have a lot of fun over this one! Fortunately, you will reach this place when that part of you has also surrendered. If there are any remnants of control, it may not have any power to act out. What a gift!
You wake up and start moving from inside, a knowing indicated by body sensations and thoughts which have no attachment to anything. That’s when you know you are not in your conditioned belief system. Call upon the archangels to cleanse all lower energies so that you are feeling only your feelings and not that of others. Remember the more you are connected to the source, the more connected you become to all and the more sensitive you are to all energies around you. Boundaries are important to prevent your energy from being drained and to have clarity of thought.
The way back to the light is through the exact same way you moved out of it in the first place - through your fears, false beliefs and experiencing the pain you caused others. Dying before the physical death is not romantic as all spiritual books make it out to be. We still do it, or it is done onto us, in spite of us, out of sheer grace – so we may finally be free.
Some of my days were lost in the darkness of my despair as nothing is known anymore. My old self confidence seemed to have died as I was dying. All my past accolades in my job in Corporate America have faded and I see the falseness in it all. How do I live not able to sell my talents, not knowing what I am right now? Only life will have to show it to me. I follow the angel’s advice where a thought is seen for its falseness before it is believed and try to stop its escalation right there. The journey was lonely and I wondered if it could get any lonelier. I wondered if I could I lose my faith in God.
I later channeled this section, which helped me rest in peace.
When the sun rises it also sets – that’s the law of things. Why do you hold on to one event in desperation and reject another? The cycle is what makes the sunrise and sunset breathtaking. You are caught viewing life with blinders on. You choose one experience and reject the rest. This preference is causing the pain in your heart. Yes, the side you are rejecting does cause pain – it is so you will transform and see the truth. You are missing the whole picture when you are focused on a minute part. How can you make decisions when you don’t have total information at hand? You have a certain preference for food, partners, clothes, job and spiritual teachers – everything viewed with bias will only be a partial experience of the fullness. You own an experience when you have fully experienced it and have seen all sides of the coin. Only then is wisdom gained. This life is a journey for you to experience all that you can, so you may learn and know what makes you really happy. It is not the happiness that comes and goes, but the kind that stays on forever because you now see the joy in everything. Pain and pleasure are held in equanimity without discrimination.
The journey is painful and you will have moments of utter despair. That is when you are taught to learn that you do not hold it all in your hands. You learn to surrender. You hold on to your faith. You bring God and Angels into the picture so your load is shared and you gently walk through the thorns in your path until they are all removed by your divine grace. You think too much and spoil the fun of the moment. Love is a word least understood by mankind. Love is not conditional. It is not because of something you perceive as a feeling and emotion. Love existed even before ‘you’ existed. Before your thoughts, beliefs and personality existed. These thoughts, beliefs and personality covered the love and tainted it to be a form of barter system – you give me this and I will give you a few morsels of my love. What nonsense! This love is experienced when it is allowed to come forth and bloom in you without any of your input. It is already there just waiting to express itself. It dawns like the first sunrise after a storm when you have cleansed out all your shadows and have owned your life as being your creation entirely. You are divine. How can it be otherwise? Live and watch that love dawn inside you. It will surprise you completely when you observe yourself doing the most uncharacteristic things as this love moves. You be this love in action once it has graced you with its presence. That is God taking house in you when your old self is dying.
There are times of cataclysmic changes within you and when that happens you will need to be prepared to have a lot of fear and uncertainty arise. This is a natural reaction because your foundation is being uprooted and shaken. Sometimes a lot of energy is needed for change to take place. When that happens, hold on to your center, your angels and your God to help you get through this upheaval. Do not hold on to any guilt or blame when the old falls away from you. At some higher level you wanted this change for your highest learning. At the same time others who are affected by this change are also learning lessons because they have asked for this learning to set themselves free. It is not always one way. Sometimes you need to walk alone to discover who you are. Are you ready to do so? Are you ready to throw away all your comforts and stand alone with God? Are you ready to see what He is showing you? Are you ready to learn from what She wants you to see? Are you ready to drop an old way of thinking and acting and move to a truer existence? The path is not easy. It is strewn with points of darkness and you need to hold on to yourself to fully realize what you are and what you are not.
When you are lost, pray. Ask for clarity, so you may see through the maze of emotions engulfing you at the moment of shift. Remember you are not created to be a constant giver or a constant taker all your life. At some point all will have to come to a stop. You will make a change toward a mutually nurturing relationship with all. At that point, your friends and family may drop away. You will go through a time of transition where a shift will take place for something more solid to emerge. Do you have the patience to wait for the mud to settle down and the water to become clear? Walk alone in this new path and discover for yourself. Trust in whatever is brought forth in each moment. Maybe an old relationship becomes more fulfilling than before or maybe it will completely fall away. Love the people involved. Surround them with white light so they may also heal through this process and see the truth. Do not blame anyone or be angry. They played a role that you wanted them to play so that you would realize it is no longer working for you. When there is love, everything will set itself right.
I was going through a huge learning cycle when the above was channeled. It was of a tremendous help as it soothed my soul. I was lost. I realized all my friendships until then were formed out of neediness where I was playing the role of a giver, so that I would be seen as a ‘spiritual’, ‘loving’ and ‘good’ person. In the retreat with my divine teacher, Goddess Maya, my unconscious shadows were brought to light. I saw my neediness, and as it was being released from me, every relationship was seen to be false. I now want a mutually nourishing relationship where we come together out of joy and not out of lack.
Living through Difficult Times
(channeled teachings from Frodham - Ascended Masters)
The art of forgiving is to see another as yourself. This comes with knowing who you are and accepting yourself. Accept your weakness as your divine imperfections. You deny the imperfections in yourself hence you see the same reflected in another and do not forgive. When the heart is opening, there are times of great distress and sadness as emotions are being cleared out of your system. There is a period of doubt and lack of faith. Just extend your hand to me and walk knowing I am with you. It is difficult to hold to faith when things are going downhill. Don’t try to understand anything at this time of change. Just walk holding my hand. I am with you always. You are allowed to make mistakes and learn. You are not expected to see a shadow and immediately not have it any more in your system. A shadow took awhile to get into your system, respect its depth and its emotions. Erase the shadow a little at a time knowing every small step counts.
You are in a hurry to cleanse yourself thinking it is going to be the end of challenges. We all dislike events that push us further. However, putting a block and preventing challenges is like saying “I don’t want to learn anymore”. You will constantly learn even when you are no longer in this human body. Learning and growing is part of the infinite enjoyment. You cannot bypass this precious learning. Your creative power within you needs this growing so it can express itself in many different ways. Learn to let go when things are no longer working. Don’t hold on to relationships which do not serve you anymore. There is no judgment anywhere. You do not need to have guilt. Everything done in love cannot be wrong. Lovingly let go of a situation or person that is no longer in sync with your growth. You do not want anyone to stagnate or pull you down.
The angels are guiding you. Ask for their help and you will be released from your pain. Ask them to guide you and to heal you. Mankind was never left alone to fend for itself. You need to ask for help and it will be given. The way out of sadness and depression is to finally see something is not helping you at all. To see it is not serving your higher purpose. Hold it in love and let it go. See it has served a purpose in you, by giving you some time to rest until you are getting ready to walk. You need to get up and walk one day. It is important that you dust yourself and get up – in your own time.
Use divine help when you get caught in the stories of your depression. Know these stories were created by you and the events corresponding to the stories also had you for its author. Others played a role in your story to release you from this pain. There is no where to go and no one to blame when you finally see you are creating your reality. You are creating the romance from not coming to your life and you are creating the unhealthy energy draining relationship in your life. You do not want to let go since then you are truly alone - alone to walk with God. It is scary when you realize this truth. You wanted the painful energy cord connected to various people to feed your dysfunction. You wanted this energy draining experience so you do not have to be alone with God. You are scared of something which is your very essence. Standing alone means you get rid of all the cords which connect you to people and things which no longer truly serve you. Then trust in the higher power to walk with you alone. You will never be let go unless you want to experience that letting go and standing alone. The sense of being scared is generated by your ego which thinks it is going to die. This is the self which needs to die so the new Self can be born. Rebirths are not easy and know you are not alone. You do not know of the gifts that await you as you discover the kingdom within you. You are free, so free that all your possessions can be robbed from you and you will smile in joy knowing all is well. All is a play in this illusionary dream. It is all so the infinite can dance in abandonment. It is for you to know your own power and be humble at that which gazes through you, at you.
Faith Soon to be published
http://www.bayareametaphysics.com/profiles/blog/show?id=863719%3ABlogPost%3A13208
Showing Up To Life
Soon to be published
http://www.bayareametaphysics.com/profiles/blog/show?id=863719%3ABlogPost%3A14507
Wake Up! http://humanityhealing.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=1388889%3ABlogPost%3A38386
Creation and Destruction
There is an expansion when your needs are met. This expansion needs to be kept open for the flow to be in any direction that life chooses it to be. Often, we contract in fear of losing what we got, which is a sure way to lose it. This is fear of scarcity. We feel we do not deserve what we have and fear it will be taken away. That is what causes possessiveness and control. Let go. Open you arms with abandon and give it the freedom to come to you or find another home. When you can do this, you are allowing yourself to have the power to be what you are and ask for what you need without anger or suppression. You are so open that you lovingly say “I want to be loved like the divine Goddess I am and I will love you like the divine God that you are”. Can you really feel the energy behind these powerful words? Can you feel the transformative force when you see another in completeness of their form? This force is the unlimited power of creation and destruction.
We create and destroy every day. A breath is created and it is destroyed. A thought is created and it is destroyed. With each creation and destruction, if there is any kind of holding on to it, you have lost it. You have missed the magic that just happened. A birth and death in complete freedom, which is an expression of the divine. You hold on to a birth and prevent it from dying, which is the root cause of all your problems. That is the home ground of illusion, Maya - The 4 letters that have created Jesus, Hitler and you.
If you want to experience Jesus, you will, and if you chose to experience Hitler, you did. It was your divine choice. This is a hard one for many to accept that you script your life as it is. It takes tremendous courage to see it. Until you are ready to see the magnitude of it, you will continue to blame fate and people for your misery.
One day the veil will slip off and you will see. Every side that you turn you will see everything that is inside you which is causing each moment. You will then come to your knees and surrender. You will no longer be angry at your own creation. You will know that failure is your doorway to freedom. When you wake up in the morning, you do not think what a lousy human being you are. It is the mask you put on immediately after waking because you wanted it. You wanted to feel your own rejection of yourself. You wanted to feel you have not succeeded in life. You wanted to feel nothing you do will ever lead you to happiness.
What have you gained by these thoughts and feelings? A sense of right that your beliefs were true? This is a feeling of great power in spite of the situation robbing you of your personal power. There is an underlying anger to it which fuels it and it feels good to believe you were always right. And guess what! You will be proven to be right over and over because you are co-creating this again and again. You need to sit and ask yourself if you truly want to change. This means, you will no longer be in a place having predetermined conclusions in your head. You will now be open to infinite possibilities. Can you do that? Can you walk alone finally with your arms wide open, allowing everything?
