A metaphysician at heart I love to delve deep into the great questions but I have realized quite clearly that my intention to discuss these deepest truths may have gone too deep too soon. It was my little sister who said it perfectly, ‘I know what you are talking about but I don’t completely get it’.
I for one am very grateful for her honesty. I was at that same place for a long time and it got me thinking that I need to make this conversation digestible and easily adaptable. Afterall this is part of my journey, the journey of communicating these ideas. So bare with me as I attempt to discuss ultimate truths in a digestable way, after all I have come to know that ultimate truths can never be 'understood' in an all knowing way, we find that there are always levels upon levels of understanding to be gained.
To explore the level Metaphysics 101 we first need to acknowledge the eternal questions within. These are the questions that are rarely spoken in polite conversation; the ones that fail to permeate through the drone of work and daily life. The great questions of ‘who are we’ ‘what are we’ and ‘why we are’ are the outline to the first lesson.
I found myself early on exploring the ‘great questions’ which have led me here today attempting to offer some clarity around these seemingly far out concepts. It was my first publicly open question of this sort that later led me to study Metaphysics, Reiki, Hypnotherapy and other healing arts. Funnily enough my first probing question came during a sex education class at school when I was 10.
To dispel any concerns or embarrassment our teacher handed out paper and offered that we could write down any questions that we were too embarrassed out loud. So the first thing that went through my head and what I innocently wrote down on that scrap of paper was, "what else is there?" I mean the unveiling of ‘sex’ to me had shaken things up I felt that my line of questioning fitted the context of this class. To me sex was an unveiling of one of the great mysteries in life. I assumed that since the 'adults' had kept this from us for this long it was likely there were more truths not yet unveiled. In fact I knew there were.
It was my opportunity to find out. I nervously awaited my question to be read out and even though it was anonymous I wanted to hide away as my teacher read it out loud with a perplexed smile on her face. She announced that ‘no, that was everything’, and in less than a sentence she dashed my hopes of finding out the deepest of truths. ‘What was I’, ‘who was I’ and ‘Why was I’, I hadn’t formulated my question quite right but this is what I was asking. I don’t think she quite understood my line of questioning, but I knew that she sensed the greater meaning. It was the first time I understood that even these questions baffled adults.
That moment set me upon a great path of discovery. If adults don’t even know, I figured that I will have to go to work it out myself. And then little by little my desire to understand began to bring forth information and people who revealed to me further snippets that kept my questioning alive. Life tends to do this, always leading us back to the same questions for greater and deeper revelation.
It was my Grandmother’s near death experience that really pushed me over the edge into questioning life and death with a fervor early on. Hearing my Grandmother’s (NDE) story changed my life and created a deep desire to understand more.
'Here we go again' my mother and I thought as we sat listening to what we expected to be one of the many repeated stories my grandmother so colorfully told. This time however she surprised us both. She revealed her near death experience that occurred during childbirth to our utter amazement.
Noonie (as we call our hippy grandmother) would describe the vivid ordeal as though she had just gone through it, a recollection so detailed that it felt more real than the here and now.
She recalled the doctors every word and actions during the time of her death; she described a tunnel of great light, the greetings of long dead relatives and the experience of oneness and bliss. During her magical experience she heard the words ‘it's not your time’ and understood her need to return to her body as her ‘purpose’ had not yet been fulfilled, she had a baby to look after and however much she didn’t want to return she knew she must.
It was she believes divine will that dropped her back within the confines of her body like a heavy thud, back to the burdens and pain.
This experienced stirred me deeply as I realized how fantastic and wonderful the universe really was and finally there was a story I did want to hear over and over. The thought of her experiences gave me countless magical nights lying in bed trying to get my head around God and infinity. I mean try and imagine ‘infinity’ now, go on.
At the time however God still remained separate to my idea of what I was and who I was and yet I knew was beginning to gather a greater truth.
I remember going through my holy communion and really expecting to see and experience the holy spirit entering me. However it didn’t happen that way; and since I was so curious I was bitterly disappointed. At once I gave up on organized religion. I was 9.
As long as I expected to experience God as separate to me, I was never going to know God. Of course I didn’t know this at the time. So I continued along my personal journey not yet understanding the key so I read books on great mysteries, watched anything I could which unveiled or discussed the mysterious. It was all pointing in the same direction.
Lesson 1 ‘What am I’, ‘who am I’ and ‘Why am I’
The greatest and most profound truth to be remembered or unveiled along the path of discovery and which is the key to all other discoveries is that you and I are in fact one with God. There is no thing which is not God, we are the one mind, the one and same thing experiencing itself in its many facets of itself in order to come to know and expand our self. And although we each have spent many years searching externally for the great answers we remain confused and perplexed.
Religion in all it good meaning has confused the situation by preaching separateness; I continue to see so much confusion when one believes the greatest myth of all, that we are separate. The answer is within, and within there is all.
God is within. God is not external, and as we are God none of us is less than the other and we are all one. It is only our level of 'awarness' that keeps this truth from being lived 100%. The word God can be exchanged for the word Life, Universal Consciousness, Love, or Oneness. It is the eternal energy of everything. It is everything and it is only our thoughts and actions that lead us away from the truth, our forgetting.
The veil of illusion covers the truth. But we can find our way back again in uniquely glorious ways. And it is our way back that expands God's, Life's, or Love's experience of itself. God is continually evolving, as is life. As is love. They are the same thing. We are continually expanding individually and collectively we expand. We are not separate to life and love. We are in essence pure eternal love and light manifested into the physical to experience the Ying and Yang of ourselves; through which we learn and expand our consciousness (our awarness of the divine truth).
As we individually expand we affect the collective reality which affects ultimate reality (God) and thus we are part of the collective and ultimate source.
No one expects you to take this information on face value, in fact I implore you not to. These things need to be experienced and deeply understood. And I want for you to experience the feeling of love, oneness and god. So below is a beautiful exercise to encourage this experience. And remember like all things, practice makes perfect. So it is advised to practice this lovely 5 minute meditation daily until the next lesson is available, by that time you will be ready.
Exercise: As appropriated from Nithya Shanti's meditation (www.spreadinghappiness.com)
Get comfortable, close your eyes and relax. Bring awareness to your breath, breathing in through the nose and breathing out through the mouth. Feel the cyclical nature of the breath as it reaches down in to the diaphragm.
Gently bring your awareness to your breathing and gently bring your awareness to your heart.
And as you breathe in I want you to fill yourself with love,
And as you breath out, fill yourself with love.
Breath by breath tune into this quality do it very patiently keeping a gentle smile on the face.
Gradually this quality gathers momentum, I want you to fill yourself with this quality, fill yourself with this quality……
And when you feel that you are filling up with this quality, you can decide to let it over flow let it flow out and fill the whole atmosphere around you and everyone that is in the vicinity may they also benefit from love.
Breath in to fill yourself up and breath out to saturate to whole atmosphere around you.
Stream by stream it becomes a river, this quality becomes a mighty river, flowing in all directions.
And when you feel ready let it expand even further in all directions of space and time.
Let this quality become expansive, boundless, limitless, unhinged unobstructed.
Let this quality become infinite, infinite, infinite and saturate the entire universe in all directions of space time, there is only this quality, there is nothing but this quality. There is nothing but love.
Lesson two will begin to unveil the interrelated workings of body, mind and soul and offer us further experience of this ultimate truth.
Lesson two ‘The vibration of you’ will be available next week
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