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Life is a creation, not a discovery.
You do not live each day to discover what it holds for you, but to create it. You are creating your reality every minute, probably without knowing it.
Here's why that is so and how that works.
1. I have created you in the image and likeness of God
2. God is the creator.
3. You are three beings in one. You can call these three aspects of being anything you want. Father, Son and Holy Ghost; mind, body and spirit; superconscious, conscious, subconscious.
4. Creation is a process which proceeds from these three parts of your body. Put another way, you create at three levels. The tools of creation are: thought, word, and deed.
5. All creation begins with thought ("Proceeds from the Father"). All creation then moves to word ("Ask and you shall receive, speak and it shall be done unto you"). All creation is fulfilled in deed ("And the word was made flesh, and dwelt amongst us")
6. That which you think of, but thereafter never speak of, creates at one level. That which you thinkof and speak of creates at another level. That which you think, speak and do becomes manifest in your reality.
7. To think, speak and do something which you do not truly believe is impossible. Therefore the process of creation must include belief, or knowing. This is absolute faith. This is beyond hoping. This is knowing of a certainty ("By your faith shall ye be healed") Therefore the doing part of creation always includes knowing. It is a gut-level clarity; a complete acceptance as reality of something.
8. This place of knowing is a place of intense and incredible gratitude. It is a thankfulness in advance. And that perhaps is the biggest key to creation: to be grateful before, and for, the creation. Such taking for granted is not only condoned but encouraged. It is the sure sign of Mastery. All Masters know in advance the deed has been done.
9. Celebrate and enjoy all that you create, have created. To reject any part of it is to reject part of yourself. Whatever it is that is now presenting itself as part of your creation, own it, claim it, bless it, be thankful for it. Seek not to condemn it ("God damn it"), for to condemn it is to condemn yourself.
10. If there is some aspect of creation you find you do not enjoy, bless it and simply change it. Choose again. Call forth a new reality. Think a new thought. Say a new word. Do a new thing. Do this magnificently and the rest of the world will follow you. Ask it to. Call for it to. Say, "I am the Life and the Way, follow me."
This is how to manifest God's Will "on earth as it is in Heaven".
Neale: If it is all as simple as that, if these ten steps are all we need, why does it not work that way for more of us?
It does work that way, for all of you. Some of you are using the "system" consciously, with full awareness, and some of you are using it subconsciously, without even knowing what you are doing.
Some of you are walking in wakefullness and some of you are sleepwalking. Yet all of you are creating your reality - creating, not discovering - using the power I have given you, and the process I've just described.
July 2000, in reply to a question posed at the
Chopra Forum ...
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Let's start here. The soul - your soul - knows all there is to know all the time. There's nothing hidden to it, nothing unknown. Yet knowing is not enough. The soul seeks to experience.
You can know yourself to be generous, but unless you do something which displays generosity, you have nothing but a concept. You can know yourself to be kind, but unless you do someone a kindness, you have nothing but an idea about yourself.
It is your soul's desire to turn its grandest concept about itself into its greatest experience. Until concept becomes experience, all there is is speculation. I have been speculating about Myself for a long time. Longer than you and I could collectively remember. Longer than the age of ths universe times the age of the universe. You see, then, how young is - how young is - My experience of Myself.
Neale: You've lost me again. Your experience of Yourself?
Yes, let me explain it to you this way:
In the beginning, that which Is is all there was, and there was nothing else. Yet All That Is could not know itself, because All That Is is all there was, and there was nothing else. And so, All That Is ... was not. For, in the absence of something else, All That Is, is not.
This is the great Is/Is Not to which mystics have referred from the beggining of time.
Now All That Is knew it was all there was - but this was not enough, for it could only know its utter magnificence conceptually, not experientially. Yet the experience of itself is that for which it longed, for it wanted to know what it felt like to be so magnificent. Stiil this was impossible, for the very term "magnificent" is a relative term. All That Is could not know what it felt like to be magnificent unless that which is not showed up. In the absence of th
at which is not, that which IS, is not.
Do you understand?
Neale: I think so. Keep going.
Alright. the one thing that All That Is knew is that there was nothing else. And so it coul, and never would know itself from a reference point outside of Itself. Such a point did not exist. Only one reference point existed, and that was the single place within. The "Is-Not Is." The Am-Not Am.
Still the All of Everything chose to know itself experientially.
This energy - this pure, unseen, unheard, unobserved, and therefore unknown-by-anyone-else energy - chose to experience Itself as the utter magnificence It was. In order to do this, It realised It would have to use a reference point within.
It reasoned, quite correctly, that any portion of Itself would necessarily have to be less than the whole and if It thus simply divided Itself into portions, each portion, being less than the whole, could look back on the rest of Itself and see magnificence.
And so All That Is divided Itself - becoming, in one glorious moment, that which is this, and that which is that. For the firt time, this and that existed, quite apart from each other. And still, both existed simultaneously. As did all that was neither.
Thus, three elements suddenly existed: that which is here. That which is there. And that which is neither here nor there - but which must exist for here and there to exist.
It is the nothing which holds the everything. It is the non-space which holds the space. It is the all which holds the parts.
Can you understand this?
Are you following this?
Neale: I think I am, actually. Believe it or not, you have used such a clear illustration that I think I am actually understanding this.
I'm going to go further.
Now this nothing which holds the everything is what some people call God. Yet, that is not accurate, either, for it suggests that there is something which God is not - namely, everything that is not "nothing". But I am All Things - seen and unseen - so this description of Me as the Great Unseeen - the No-Thing or the Space Between, an essentially Eastern mystical definition of God, is no more accurate than the essentially Western practical description of God as all that is seen.
Those who believe that God is All That Is and All That Is Not are those whose understanding is correct.
Now in creating that which is "here" and that which is "there", God made it possible for God to know Itself. In the moment of this great explosion from within, God created relativity - the greatest gift God ever gave to Itself. Thus relationship is the greatest gift God ever gave to you, a point to be discussed in detail later.
From the No-Thing thus sprang the Everything - a spiritual event entirely consistent, incidentally, with what your scientists call The Big Bang Theory.
As the elements of all raced forth, time was created, for a thing was first here, then it was there- and the period it took to get from here to there was measurable.
God knew that for love to exist - and to know itself as pure love - its exact opposite had to exist as well. So God voluntarily created the great polarity - the absolute opposite of love - everything that love is not - what is now called fear. In the moment fear existed, love could exist as a thing that could be experienced.
It is this creation of duality between love and its opposite which humans refer to in their various mythologies as the birth of evil, the fall of Adam, the rebellion of Satan and so forth.
Update September 30, 2000 -
I happened to look up the word 'celebrate' in the index of Conversations With God ... here is what i found on Page 208 -
The moral codes, religious constrictions, social taboos and emotional conventions you have placed around sex (and, by the way, around love - and all of life) have made it virtually impossible for you to celebrate your being.
From the beginning of time all man has ever wanted is to love and be loved. And from the beginning of time man has done everything in his power to make it imopossible to do that. Sex is an extraordinary expression of love - love of another, love of Self, love of life. You ought to therefore love it! (And you do - you just can't tell anyone you do; you don't dare show how much you love it or you'll be called a pervert. Yet this is the idea that is perverted.)
In our next book, we shall look at sex much more closely; explore its dynamics in greater detail, for this is an experience and an issue of sweeping implications on a global scale.
For now - and for you, personally - simply know this: I have given you nothing shameful, least of all your very body and its functions. There is no need to hide your body or its functions - nor your love of them, and of each other.
Your television programs think nothing of showing naked violence but shrink from showing naked love. Your whole society reflects that priority.
12. Is there life on other planets? Have we been visited by it? Are we being observed now? Will we see evidence - irrevocable and indisputable - of extraterrestrial life in our lifetime? Does each form of life have its own God? Are you the God of it all?
Yes to the first part. Yes to the second. Yes to the third. I cannot answer the fourth part, since that would require me to predict the future - something I am not going to do
We will however talk a great deal more about this thing called the future in Book Two - and we'll talk about extraterrestrial life and the nature(s) of God in Book Three.
Omigosh! There's going to be a Book Three?
Let me outline the plan here.
Book One is to contain basic truths, primary understandings, and address personal matters and issues.
Book Two is to contain more far-reaching truths, grander understandings and address global matters and issues.
Book Three is to contain the largest truths you are now capable of understanding and address universal matters and issues - matters being dealt with by all the beings of the universe.
I can't wait to read Books Two & Three ... :)
Update October 31, 2000 -
I looked up 'death' in the index - no, I'm not feeling morbid :) - actually the Buddhists meditate on death daily as it could come anyday without warning and they believe your state of mind at the moment of death greatly influences you path in the realms you enter by dying ... but anyway, here is an excerpt from page 183 of Book I -
There is an Eastern mystical teaching surrounding a doctrine called Karma Loca - according to this teaching, at the time of our death each person is given the opportunity to relive every thought ever entertained, every word ever spoken, every action ever taken, not from our standpoint, but from the standpoint of every other person affected. In other words, we've already experienced what we felt thinking, saying and doing what we did - now we're given the experience of feeling what the other person felt in each of these moments - and it is by this measure that we'll decide whether we'll think, say or do those things again. Any comment?
What occurs in your life after this is far too extraordinary to describe in terms you could comprehend - becuase the experience is other-dimensional and literally defies description using tools as severely limited as words. It is enough to say that you will have the opportunity to review again this, your present life, without pain or fear or judgement, for the prpose of deciding how you feel about your experience here, and where you want to go from there.Many of you will decide to come back here; to return to this world of density and relativity for another chance to experience out the decisions and choices you made about your Self at this level.
Others of you - a select few - will return with a different mission. You will return to density and matter for the soul purpose of bringing others out of density and matter. Always there are on Earth those among you who have made such a choice. You can tell them apart at once. Their work is finished. They have returned to Earth simply and merely to help others. This is their joy. This is their exaltation. They seek naught but to be of service.
You cannot miss these people. They are everywhere. There are more of them than you think. Chances are you know one, or know of one.
Am I one?
No. If you have to ask, you know you are not one. One such as this asks questions of no one. There is nothing to ask.You, My son, in this lifetime, are a messenger. A bringer of news; a seeker and frequently a speaker of Truth. That is enough for one lifetime. Be happy.
Oh, I am. But I can always hope for more!
Yes! And you will! Always you will hope for more. It is in your nature. It is divine nature to seek always to be more.So seek, yes, by all means seek.
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So, I plugged 'Karma Loca' into a search engine and didn't find a lot apart from this link -
Though I do have some interesting links to the Tibetan Book Of The Dead somewhere ...
Special bonus
This quote comes from message # 53,583 of the world-famous
Chopra Forum
Many other excellent contributions lately and well worth a perusal ... if I do say so myself ...
I may type up more later ... or you could buy the book. :)
"Your task is not to seek love, but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it. It is not necessary to seek for what is true, but it is necessary to seek for what is false. Every illusion is one of fear, whatever form it takes. And the attempt to escape from one illusion into another must fail. If you seek love outside yourself you can be certain that you will perceive hatred within, and are afraid of it. Yet peace will never come from the illusion of love, but only from its reality."
A Course in Miracles
In the meantime ... here's some reviews/excerpts -
Conversations with God website
Some interesting scans of MY copy of the book and a few scribbles & comments
More excerpts from Conversations with God
Most inspirational books of all-time - you may vote for your favourite & CWG rates 2nd to the Bible - summaries & links on all the top books.
God Channel - has quite an in depth look at the "Conversations with God" books.
This page has an excellent excerpt from Book III ... hard to pick one phrase but try this - 'When I want for you what you want for you, then I truly love you. When I want for you what I want for you, then I am loving Me, through you.'
Plus it tells of Neale resisting the whole process! ... and even resenting it ... hmmm ... as in:
Book Reviews - more than just CWG
Click here for a site with CWG excerpts & HUGE discussion board as well ...
How the Conversations with God books came to be
some emails around Christmas 2000 from the email study group.
For info on this egroup:
click here
Click here for online reading guides for Conversations with God, Books 1, 2 & 3:
Click here to go direct to the cwg summary & reader's experiences - many echo my own experience & thoughts upon encountering this book.
I think my greatest fear is that I will prove to be an inadequate, inappropriate "spokesperson" for God, given the seemingly endless series of mistakes and misdeeds which have marked my life and characterized my behavior.
More excerpts ...