The biggest trick in the universe holds humanity hostage

The biggest trick in the universe holds humanity hostage 

What is it?

The lie that we are separate from God.  The lie that we are a separate ‘I entity’, body/mind person, a psychological self image, trying to get to peace, to love, to heaven, to God.  

This is the fall from grace.  It is only imagined, dreamed.  Yet we need the pain and trauma of this apparent separation from God in order to feel the pull that calls us back to the restoration.  We need this apparent suffering to awaken grace in our own hearts that says ‘look!  There IS something more to your identity, there is a deeper seeing, WAKE UP! Come out of this long dream of separation’  

‘Wake up sleeper, rise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you’.  Ephesians 5:14   

I saw how much suffering as a person ‘I’ was experiencing believing the lie that I was not there yet!  Someone out of the God field.  But who was the sufferer?  

Self image, the false identity, the fraud, ‘me’ that does not actually exist when looked for in the laser light of awareness. 

From spirit and formlessness, images are observed as passing shadows, transient changeful clouds, moving thought forms in the vastness of existence.  

From here, as this formless awareness there is true liberation from personal identity, true freedom beyond the concept of freedom.  Freedom to be free, freedom to be bound.  Paradoxically the transient, finite form is also here. the body is innocent.  

Like the cessation of a tortured, tight, constricted existence held hostage by the belief I am a ‘person’ only, into a spacious free existence, most alive, fresh, natural and free.  

But for who?  

The moth reaches the flame.  

There is only ‘this’ in reality 

When we speak of transcending the personal realm often people assume this means avoiding the difficulties of earthly existence and perhaps not dealing with shadow issues or not being fully incarnated and embodied.  Spiritual bypassing is a “tendency to use spiritual ideas and practices to sidestep or avoid facing unresolved emotional issues, psychological wounds, and unfinished developmental tasks”.  The term was introduced in the early 1980s by John Welwood, a Buddhist teacher and psychotherapist (wikipedia)

It is assumed often that transcendence means denial of being human, not taking responsibility for actions and therefore being cut off from real life.  Escaping reality into some ideal heavenly utopia.  Does it mean this?

I am not sure that this is true.  Perhaps it is quite the opposite that is actually happening.  Transcendence and awakening are really the same thing bringing an immense freedom, full presence in life, full love, and an ability to respond spontaneously and appropriately to whatever situation that arises, whereas someone still who has the ego in the driving seat is following their own more selfish desires and need for control, rather than really moving in the natural flow of life.

If we look at Jesus for instance, did he not deal most deeply and effectively with human feelings and shadows?  We see him weeping when grief touched his heart, feeling righteous anger, expressing it and dealing with the consequences.  The Christ is with us in our pain and suffering of life, sharing our humanity and also rooted in God.  Transforming darkness into light by the power of love and grace.  Helping us in the struggles of life and guiding us to peace in the storms of our minds turmoil.

What did he really mean by ‘trust in God and trust in me, for I have overcome this world’  Synonyms for ‘overcome’ are ‘get the better of, prevail over, bring under control, bridle, gain mastery over, deal with, conquer, defeat, vanquish, triumph over’.  In other words he has conquered or triumphed over this world.  Mastered it, vanquished it.  But what is this ‘world’ he speaks of?   As Mooji says he didn’t travel all over the world.  He didn’t fight in each country with swords or guns to conquer land from people, he couldn’t have travelled to all countries in this world to somehow overthrow governments or nations.  No this is no mastery through force or violence.  This is a mastery of understanding, of heart, of transcendence.  I think Jesus is saying he has overcome or vanquished the world we hold to in our heads, our psychological understanding of who we fundamentally are as a child of God.  Jesus saw clearly our identity as free, true, in unity, as one in spirit, alive in him and in God who is love peace and he cured the blind, crippled, sinful, separate, isolated.  He restored faith in God in these people’s heart so they overcame whatever was binding them and they found peace through him.  

He engaged in the whole to pull people out of their suffering, he reminds them that they are not this suffering, their true nature is love and peace.  From Samsara to Nirvana.  

He removed delusion especially of guilt and shame which is all rooted in personal egoic ‘separate self’ identity.  He was awake to heavenly realms and drew people out of suffering to join him in peace.  Not when they die and ‘go to heaven’ only, but actually here on this earth!  We, my friends can all, if we have the heart to conquer the ignorance and sleep of delusion, die before we die, wake up to what is true and be timelessly happy and free!  

We can still say sorry and make amends for our actions BUT when transcendence of the delusion of personhood is conquered our neediness, selfishness and egoic grasping for control, our fearful even violent desires are actually cured, begin to really diminish, because there is such a love and peace that radiates from the one who knows deeply his true identity in harmony with the one source, at one with God.