Dialogue ~ 1

Recently, I came across an article to do with a couple of questions that were seemingly being asked by many people with regards to a growing intensity of personal conflicts as well as of broader humanitarian and environmental concerns. These questions were: “Why is this happening?” and “Does this have to happen?” The answer that was provided by a notable author was that, yes, everything that is happening had to happen in the way that it has, because that is what life is about and is how it works. The author went on to inform that life moves in cycles according to a formula (or phases) based on principles of functionality, adaptability and sustainability. Whenever the functionality of life in any of its forms is threatened, life proceeds to adapt that manifestation, so as to render itself sustainable in a new form.

An image that is coming to mind here is of the way that a flow of water in a river might encounter an obstacle in its path and will change its course, so as to navigate around the obstacle and continue on its journey. Water doesn’t necessarily change what it is, so much as how it behaves. How would complex forms of life navigate through such a journey? What happens if some of the complex forms of life experience a sense of entitlement, desire to preserve their territory or status quo and actively resist a process of adaptation? How do cultural stories (including our religious and political ideologies) work in that they both serve and disable us?

Interestingly, the author alluded to above suggests that it is the principles of life of functionality, adaptability and sustainability that is behind the human experience that we call death, i.e. in that death is not the end of life, but is the continuation of life. The author points out that it is through the adaptation of a manifestation of a given life form that renders life sustainable in a new form – that death is not a process that takes a life but is a process that changes a life.

In view of the growing evidence that the manner of life as we have been living it is becoming increasingly unsustainable for many, the author pointed out that the solution to this is not simply a case of ending the majority of human life in its present form; the reason being that it is the soul’s agenda that is being served upon the earth and the right circumstances will be co-created for its departure, but that these circumstances will not be artificially produced by the mind. In fact, life will never make sense to the mind, but will only make sense and produce sustained happiness, peace and joy when embraced from the perspective of the soul. The invitation of life, then, is not to leave the body but is instead to join the soul. 

To pick up from where I left off in my last blog, I would like to continue with reading from the Gospel of Thomas:  

 18. The disciples said to Jesus, "Tell us, how will our end come?"
Jesus said, "Have you found the beginning, then, that you are looking for the end? You see, the end will be where the beginning is. 

Congratulations to the one who stands at the beginning: that one will know the end and will not taste death." 

 24. His disciples said, "Show us the place where you are, for we must seek it."
He said to them, "Anyone here with two ears had better listen! There is light within a person of light, and it shines on the whole world. If it does not shine, it is dark." 

3. Jesus said, "If your leaders say to you, 'Look, the (Father's) kingdom is in the sky,' then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, 'It is in the sea,' then the fish will precede you. Rather, the (Father's) kingdom is within you and it is outside you.

When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will understand that you are children of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you live in poverty, and you are the poverty." 

83. Jesus said, "Images are visible to people, but the light within them is hidden in the image of the Father's light. He will be disclosed, but his image is hidden by his light." 

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The disciples were enquiring about the signs of an end time, whilst Jesus was pointing out that they had not located a beginning and in that moment of being able, would recognise an ending. What is coming to mind here is the difference in perspective between viewing time or a sequence of events as something that is linear and predictable and of viewing all events as happening simultaneously or rather, from a perspective that is quantum in its nature. If it were possible to perceive life from a perspective of two dimensions, how easy would it be to transition to three, and so on? What about if a person was capable of communicating with a being from a higher dimension and that being was describing what existence was like from their perspective, how easy would it be for a human to experience the same? 

Jesus had responded to the disciples’ question of being able to seek where he was at, through informing them that there is light within a person of light and which shines on the whole world; that if it did not shine, it is dark. In other words, it is in knowing your own location (your identity) in the cosmos that reveals the location of all other places (or states).  He continued to point out that if a person listens to another person telling them where to locate the kingdom, then it effectively hijacks their perception of their identity of where they are in the cosmos; they will find themselves in seemingly apparent competition with all other beings that are somehow between them and their destination of choice. 

If I am particle and wave, and some other particle body convinces me that I am only particle and not wave, then what happens to my wave? If I know (not through thought or belief) that I am one with the cosmos, then it follows that one being one, that I too am known by the cosmos and I belong ~ if I do not know, then I am seeking what I am (which is the same as where I am) and will be governed by a series of needs and conflict and will know only a joy that is temporary. We transmit the energies (or frequency) that reveals our state of being – like the chicken and the egg scenario, is it that our environment and experience informs us as to the nature of (our) reality, ergo worldview – or do we inform it?

Can a being just simply ‘know’ who they really are (or in older or more traditional language, recognise the kingdom of heaven); is this knowing beyond any information that their environment, nurturing and experience might have provided them? Jesus had informed the disciples that images are visible to people, i.e. that they can perceive/imagine how something might be, but that the light within them (the knowing itself or truth of who they are) is hidden in the image of the cosmic light. In other words, we cannot know our identity/truth unless and until we become one with this truth – a smaller light does not shine into a larger light and remove from it (we cannot pick God’s brain as it were). 

~ We are not individually responsible for any instance of ‘knowing’ (seekers take note!) but we are capable of receiving a light that is of wisdom ~