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i made it! . . i made it! . . well, at least for now . . .
Richard Bach once said that if you\'re considering suicide, don\'t.
Instead get up and run away to New Zealand. Now I\'ve been to New Zealand and it\'s awesome scenery but it comes with its own set of social and personal problems to deal with. For many decades I tried to run away from my problems but as we all know you take them with you where ever you go because our problems are the learning and lessons we\'re still refusing to face. So many people write me for assistance but when Guidance makes it into an assisted self-help program that\'s about the last we ever hear from many of the (like some of you). Since when has spirituality ever NOT been a self-help program? Are we all so brainwashed by religion and forgiveness of sin that we have forgotten what our own two spiritual feet are for? Nobody can do any of this for you. Grace can only ever open windows for you to step through. Once when giving a talk at a Heart-of-the Heart conference I followed a man who whipped the audience into a frenzy talking about the beauty and pleasures of astral travel and using the Om-Aum. Spoil-sport and spiritual realist that I am I then shared with the audience that the astral plane is simply the 4th dimension in a 14 going on 15 dimensional Universe, and that Aum is simply the \'mantra\' from the scientific letters for Gold - Au, combined with the monatomic state +M, referring to the multi-dimensional state created by ingesting monatomic gold. Some people of course were not happy. Very few people ever like or respond well to truth, that\'s why we get all these BS statements about everyone having their own truth. It\'s just another excuse foir self-will to run rampant. Yes, there are varying ways of perceiving the various levels of truth and the many paradoxes involved, but truth does, however, remain constant. The are many levels of \'heaven\'. There are many veils clouding the vision of one traveling from one level of heaven to another. As Paul Twitchell so aptly described in his master work The Tiger\'s Fang, on each level of heaven there is a \'embodiment\' of God, each of whom like to fool the spiritual traveler by telling them they are God and there is no higher. My experieince of this is that everyone I\'ve worked with seems to get a small taste of spirituality and then wander off thinking they have made it. People who channel once or twice all of a sudden are telling me what my Guidance wants me to do. Now that\'s the height of our subject from the other day, arrogance. There are so many ways to fall off the path and so little commitment from anyone to reach for the highest (even though everyone you talk to always says they want to reach the highest). Twenty times throughout my writings I\'ve mentioned this work, and every other day I thank my sister for having me read it in childhood for it means so much to me today in watching everyone step on the path for a day or a week or a month and then just as quickly get off it. The work I\'m referring to is John Bunyan\'s classic 17th century book, The Pilgrim\'s Progress, about a spiritual traveler trying to reach the top of the mountain. Along the way he is joined for brief periods of time by so many who find any excuse to get off the path, every reason to pull him off the path, or in some other way find means by which to hinder his journey. In the end of course it is only Christian (the character\'s unfortunate name) that makes it to the top of the mountain to have his satchel full of woes removed and find the glory of \'God\'. Why are there so few Masters? It\'s because the commitment to service it takes to follow through with one\'s initial enthusiasm for Spiritual things has to be, or to become, total. This particularly means, of course, facing up to the fact that no one else wants to go along with you. It has always seemed to me and become a realistic understanding that people want to be led (or carried) and most of them do not have the genuine spiritual drive within themselves that can make Mastership a reality. Think about these things next time you find yourself having a spiritual epiphany. Enjoy it in that moment but know that the journey of soul NEVER ends, there is always one more step to take for as we grow \'God\' grows and so the journey never ends. If not today then tomorrow or in the eternity of tomorrows to come you and everyone else NEEDS to make a choice about whether one will be the cause in their own spiritual life or the effect of everyone else\'s spiritual lives and teachings, and the fickle winds of fate and the lords of karma. What is the difference between making that choice today and a hundred thousand todays from now? The difference is being the driver in your own vehicle rather than the passenger in everyone else\'s. You\'re going to be around for eternity plus, so why not get started now? Isn\'t that the real secret Bill Murray\'s character discovers in the movie, Groundhog Day? It\'s the realization I know I once came to. \'Hey, if I\'m goign to be around that long I may as well do something useful\'. And I am, whether you come along for the ride or not. That\'s the detachment all must come to, we do our best to help but ultimately it\'s always that inner personal choice of those we attempt to help that decides the final outcome. To take a signal from the current voting season, make a choice and then vote with your feet (your heart and your will as well). One step at a time is all the strength you need to make yourself the Master you always wished and wanted yourself to be. in service, with Love, Peter www.4truthseekers.org 2008-06-17 |