I Made It!!??!! .. Well .. Maybe?
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 them. 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-s****t 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 Master****p
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
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