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One God For All - Manifest your Outcomes

Rays of Light




In all my life I have really only learned one
unique thing: The Earth is Truth. Truth is God. Thus the Earth is God.

To live, Thus the Earth is Truth.


The truth found in a beautiful blooming spring flower, a laughing child and an intricate ecosystem is God.

 There are many ways to this place of transcendent truth beauty -- philosophical, scientific and ecological intuitions are all equally valid paths to Gaia.

How to save the Planet
Saving the Earth will require embracing Gaia spiritually, and pursuit of radical change on her behalf. We are called back to the land even as we engage the Earth destroying global growth machine. Certainly ending coal use, protecting ancient forests and flying less are worthy and necessary rituals of Gaia
worship.

How to Vibrate to effect Change

It's not just people and objects that vibrate,thoughts
and feelings and words do too. In fact, every thought you
think and every word you speak carries with it a vibration. Even the most fleeting thought, lingering in your mind for no more than a millisecond, will vibrate at a certain frequency that will attract to or be drawn to other similar frequencies.

Every emotional and feeling state you experience changes the vibrational frequency you are sending out to the world.  Like two ends of a scale, the vibrations emitted by sadness, fear,anger or hatred are of a much denser, lower frequency than the one emitted when you are experiencing feelings of happiness or love or
serenity.

The conditions in your life do not exist as independent entities. They arise out your emotional and feeling state. Contrary to what you may have always believed, conditions in your life are not the cause of your emotional state; they are the effect of it. If you want to change the conditions in your life, you have to change the way you think and feel first.

 Every single time you bless another person, situation and object in your life, your emotional vibration will not only move to the higher end of the scale, it will actually insure that you are blessed in return. Why? Because as your vibrational frequency changes, it will go out and find people, things and situations that match it and bring them back to you. For the good you send out,
good will be returned to you.

Through determining that every person, place and experience in our lives has a beneficial reason for being there,  we open ourselves to discovering its purpose. We become totally inclusive, excluding no thing, and open ourselves to whatever information the difficult
person or situation has come to give. By our willingness to call it all good, we release the hold our resistance would have on the experience and we allow it to go away, its divine purpose in our lives having been fulfilled. And because of our willingness, we
become better, stronger, surer, wiser for having allowed the information in. We benefit. We are blessed in return.


 Do not be afraid of developing a "God Complex" as you expand this awareness.  It isn't really "complex" to be God.  You simply ARE, and you let everything else BE as well.  You admit that it's all you.  This concept expands with the development of a strong Watcher Self.  

Nature as Revelation and Source of Healing

From Chapter Three of The Direct Path by Andrew Harvey (quoted with permission) 

When you wake up to the Divine Consciousness within you and your divine identity, you wake up simultaneously to the Divine Consciousness appearing as all other beings. And this is not poetry and this is not a feeling, this is a direct experience of the divine light living in and as all other beings. And until this realization is firm in you, you do not know who or where you are. You do not know that you are God in disguise, and you do not know that you have been born into a totally sacred, totally holy creation in which all sentient beings from the smallest flea to the largest whale are nothing less than God Herself. And this has to be the core realization for a future humanity, because only from a realization of the divine identity of all things can grow the kind of humility, the kind of tenderness, the kind of wonder, the kind of awe and the kind of respect that are necessary for human beings to live in peace with each other, for human beings to live in balance with their environment, and for human beings really to work with the divine forces of love and knowledge to recreate the world in the image of God." A.H.

To awaken to the sacredness of the body and of embodiment is to know yourself increasingly, and increasingly normally, as a divine human being in a divine world. Nature is not dead or other or simply a set of gorgeously complicated interlocking systems as many scientific and some religious philosophies would have it; what mystical awakening reveals is that nature and all things and beings in it are sacred both in their origin and in all their relations and holy particulars.

As the divine light in consciousness works on and clarifies and purifies all your physical senses and divinizes them, the essential beauty and glory of nature will become clearer and clearer, more and more astounding, and more and more revelatory of the glory and beauty of the Divine that is everywhere appearing in and as all things and beings in nature. The mountain reveals itself as divine stability; the waters of the sea as the always-flowing divine power; the tiger as divine strength; the anemone as divine delicacy.

As this holy awareness deepens and as the great adventure of marrying light consciousness to the body's emotions, actions and thoughts begins and becomes more refined, nature starts to unveil even greater secrets. What the growing marriage between body and spirit deepens is the sense of divine identity between you and every other sentient being and the knowledge of the holiness of every thing and creature in the universe. As you learn to bless your own body as the manifestation of God more and more completely, so a faculty for blessing all other creatures grows more and more rich in you until every flower, every passing animals in the street, every fall of sunlight on the snow peaks, every sudden fall of rain, becomes different notes in one long and endless symphony of divine presence and divine love. "Everywhere and in everything my Beloved appears," sings Kabir. "I see Him every time I turn my head. What wonder and what bliss!"

What this marriage between you and your body and you and your body and nature and the light Source of all things makes more and more obvious to you is two interconnected revelations. The first is that all living things are equally holy and equally sacred. I am not more holy or sacred than the worm in my garden or the little cricket suddenly lost and bewildered on my white carpet because he wind has blown him into my drawing room; I am not more important in the web of life than the slug or sea horse or ladybug. A frog appears to me as beautiful as any archangel. While it is true that I have been graced by God with the consciousness to participate in Divine Origin and see all things flame out with Origin, that does not entitle me to believe myself special; it makes me a partner in that divine humility that is manifesting itself as all beings and all creatures, in what a great Christian mystic of the thirteenth century, Angela of Foligno, called "the unspeakable humility of Divine Love that hides itself in the Creation and takes on all shapes and forms within it."

The second revelation that the marriage of body and spirit brings is that all human beings, precisely because they have been graced with origin consciousness, have the responsibility to serve and protect the creation in and under God, following with reverence the laws of the Father-Mother as revealed in and through nature in her relations and rhythms. As the child of the Father-Mother consciously aware of my origin in that light that is the origin of all things, I have a final and inescapable responsibility to treat all things and beings with divine love, divine respect, and divine tenderness. The more I do so, the more I will grow in my own human divinity and the more I will experience, with ever greater intimacy and wonder, the Divine Presence in every rose, every bird, every shifting play of wind in the grasses, every fern and poke weed

One of the greatest and most reassuring mystical experiences of my recent life was seeing my cat Purrball blazing softly in divine light at the top of the stairs, licking her paws. From the moment I first saw this beautiful tabby sitting resignedly at the back of a cage in the pound, my heart contracted in love for her. That love grew and grew in the weeks and months that followed; I never knew that I could feel so unconditional a tenderness for any creature. I experienced each moment with her as a direct, almost deranging blessing that I began to know was taking me deeper and deeper into the scared heart of the Father-Mother. It was as if she were the "worm" on the hook of divine love and that divine love, using her as bait, was drawing me into an ever deeper realization of the holiness of all things. Because I loved my cat so much so suddenly, every animal I saw in the street or on television, even animals that I had before disliked or been afraid of, such as cockroaches, boa constrictors, and alligators, all became not only startlingly beautiful but also profoundly touching. I had known for years about the horrible ways in which we treat animals in slaughterhouses, cosmetic factories, vivisection institutes; I had also known many f the facts about the extermination of animal species that our environmental holocaust is causing. Loving my cat more and more made all these forms of knowledge suddenly inescapably real. Every time I saw the face of an abused animal, I saw the face of my cat in pain; every time I read of the disappearance of a species of fish or insect or bird I saw her face being wiped out by darkness. I realized that the Divine had given me my cat to open my heart finally to the living horror of what we are doing to animals and the natural world.

At first the immediacy of such naked knowledge scared me. I believed that a great deal of mystical experience had already opened my heart; I was not prepared for this rending of another veil by love. But as I surrendered more and more not only to loving Purball but to loving all animals and things in nature in her and through her, I found that I grew in heartbroken love for all things and beings menaced now by the environmental catastrophe human greed and blindness are engendering, and hat from that heartbroken love came a more and more passionate desire to do everything in my power to help others awaken to what I was being shown. I remembered what an old Indian chief had told me years before at a conference in New York: "When you allow yourself really to fall in love with the world, your whole being becomes full of a mothers passion to protect her children, and a fathers hunger to see them safe and strong."

And then the moment came, when on evening, after I had been down to the fridge to drink some milk, I came back up the stairs to our bedroom and saw my cat at the top of the stairs surrounded by a nimbus of dazzling sweet diamond light. Every aspect of her seemed supernaturally precise in that dazzling light; each whisker, the white under her chin, the shining of her eyes, the "M" mark on her forehead, all were utterly clear; It was if I had never seen them before, never loved or adored or revered them enough. I realized that if I completely married my body, heart, soul, and mind together, I would see all things with this sacramental passion, burning with the glory of God.

What the Direct Path has brought me to, then, is the knowledge that I am one with all things and beings in a divine awareness and energy that streams from the light. It has also brought me closer to the love of the Father-Mother for all things, and the protective passion that arises naturally from that love. I at last am really beginning to understand what the Lakota Indians mean when they say that all living things are their relations, and to feel some small part of the love that drove St. Francis to love the larks rising from the dawn fields of Tuscany and pick up the worms from the paths near his hermitage.

Taken From Chapter Three of The Direct Path by Andrew Harvey


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Whence this instinctive conviction that there is discoverable pattern of order in the realm of nature?....Religion is not at all alien to scientific thought but bears an ancestral relationship to the set of intellectual disciplines that define our concept of modernity. Western religion, in short, is the father of Western science. What could be more fitting, then, than for science to focus the lens of skeptical inquiry on issues relating to its own dimly understood paternity—that is to say, on religious belief, the historical source of scientists' boundless faith in the discoverable rationality of the cosmos.

James N. Gardner
Complexity theorist and author of
The Intelligent Universe and Biocosm

The Discovery of Pure Openness

Absolute consciousness is indeed pure consciousness. It's not a thing; it's not an object; it's not a mist. If you have to think about it at all, it's a vast, open emptiness in which all objects arise. Moment to moment, right now, you're aware of various things going on in the world. You're aware of a table in front of you; you're aware of a telephone....you're aware of mountains, streams. All of those are arising in your pure awareness. And enlightenment is the discovery of this pure openness, this pure, radical Ground of Being.

Ken Wilber
Integral Philosopher
EnlightenNext magazine, Dec 2008–Feb 2009
 

Zoltan Torey, an extraordinary man who dedicated his life to understanding the nature of consciousness after a tragic accident at a chemical plant left him blind and barely alive. Torey spoke about his heroic struggle for life and the cosmic vision that came to him late one night in a Sydney hospital bed:
The world was in a ghastly situation, and here I was in this hospital room concerned with my own recovery? As the night wore on, my reflections deepened. I thought, "Instead of asking what God and the universe can do for me, why don't I ask what I can do for God and the universe?" In my mind I began to review everything I understood about evolution. I knew that the universe began with this big bang, that everything we can see today was condensed in a single mathematical point. So, in a sense, we are the expanded form of this initial condition that appears to have a natural tendency to generate awareness, insight, and complexity from within. I came to the conclusion that there was an unmistakable directionality in all this. I even began to perceive good and evil, not in a religious sense but in the sense of promoting or retarding this grand process.  
 
 
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