(This is the channeled first chapter of a book manuscript.)
Once upon a time, all beings lived in harmony. Once upon a time, there was no fighting. Once upon a time, there was just a flow of life and no resistance. This may sound like a fairytale, but this is how things were before the human mind arose and decided to run things. The human mind decided that things were not good enough the way they were and it needed to change things to its liking.
This is how the fall happened. This is how humans decided to fight with one another. They decided to struggle inside themselves. They decided to fight for control. The fighting started on the inside.
When we look inside at ourselves, we can see this. We can see that the fighting starts on the inside. We don’t start with our fists or with weapons. We start with our minds. That’s where the fighting starts. This is very important to understand. This is the key to the shift.
Underneath everything is life. Underneath everything is Love. That is the basis, the foundation. We have lost sight of our foundation, which is why we’re so fearful and unstable. We can’t find our foundation anymore. The foundation is Love. Remember that. By Love we mean Truth, the profound depths of reality.
We can’t move forward on this planet without finding our foundation again. And finding the foundation means to look deep inside and uncover the Truth. We can’t do this alone. We have to support one another. We don’t awaken alone. We awaken together. When the outer atmosphere is hostile, we will find difficulty in going within. But that is what we must do. We must go within and look at ourselves from the inside and look at our world from the inside. It helps to have a community of like-minded people to practice this with. The issue is that when people come together with a shared intention, even then they can get lost in unconscious mind patterns. They can get lost in struggling for control and power and righteousness. Nobody is right if everybody is wrong.
We have to let go of all this now. It’s not about creating complicated belief structures. We have already tried that. That only leads us further into struggle. We’re not here to struggle. We’re not here to fight. We’re not here to prove ourselves and make others wrong. We’re not here to get back at people for past wrongs. We’re here to forgive and love one another and live in harmony and peace. We can’t do this without a shift.
As we move forward during this time, we must find the Truth underneath all of the struggle. We must find the Truth underneath all of the pain. We must find the Truth underneath all of the ugliness. We must lift ourselves up. We must lift ourselves up one at a time, and, in doing so, lift up all of humanity. We can’t do this without people’s complicity. They have to want the shift. They have to want a change. They have to want peace. They have to want Truth. They have to want Love. This is the time of the resurrection. This is the time of the resurrection of all of humanity. This is not the time for crucifixion. The time for crucifixion is done. The time for punishing ourselves with our false beliefs is done. The time for punishing others with our false beliefs is done.
The way forward is very simple. It is to release whatever beliefs are causing us to struggle and be in pain and inflict pain on others. We have to let go of these belief structures. They are so deeply rooted inside of us that we can’t even see them right now. These belief structures have been inside of us for generations, for eons. But now is the time to let them go. Now is the time to find another way. Now is the time for a shift in perspective. Now is the time for a shift in our way of being in the world. Now is the time for a shift in our way of being in our hearts and minds.
We are at our core beings of peace and love. But when you look out at the external world, this isn’t what you see most of the time. You see reflections of something else. You see reflections of ugliness. Ugliness is created by the division in the mind. The division that tries to keep us all separate and fighting with one another and without compassion for one another. This is so difficult to see in ourselves, but we have been conditioned from birth to behave in this way and to see others in this way. When we go outside and look around in the world, we see a lot of division and separation. We don’t see the oneness, the unity, of all things.
The shift will come as we willingly give up our old perspectives. The key is to accept the shift. The key is to willingly change our way of being in the world, which means first changing our perspectives. Some radical steps will be necessary in order to do this. We will explain these in later chapters. There is nothing to fear, however. All of this is moving us toward Love. All of this is moving us away from struggle and pain and ugliness. All of this is moving us toward peace, toward Truth. We could also use the word God here. The shift is moving us toward God/source/Love/peace/consciousness.
When we come together in peace and Love and harmony, we find that we don’t need to create division anymore. The problem is when people only want peace and harmony in their minds, but actually underneath have other intentions, like for specialness or grandiosity. When people want to feel superior to others, no matter how good their intentions seem to start, they will end up in the same place. They will end up back in pain and suffering. People who choose to truly relinquish their self identity and their separateness, will always have an easier time making the shift. People who need to continue to feel special and think their beliefs are better than other people‘s will struggle here. They will not be able to make the shift.
Making the shift requires the true intention and willingness to go beyond all of this now—to go beyond the separateness of the individual mind. It means truly embracing the connection and unity of all beings. It means truly feeling the light within each of us is the light within everyone else. There is no room for pretense here. You can’t fake it till you make it. You have to reside in Truth, otherwise you can’t move forward in the shift.
When we make ourselves right and other people wrong, we’re creating division inside of ourselves and also in our outer world. This is the main issue in the world today. The main issue is conflicting beliefs. And beliefs are nothing more than thoughts that our mind has attached to. All beliefs must be investigated and tested to see if they are true or not. What first seems to be true may on closer investigation be found to be false. Anything that causes division is false. When you look closely and see that your beliefs are causing division, you need to let them go. We will explain how to do this later.
We can’t continue in this manner. We’re leading to destruction. We’re leading to human destruction. And human destruction also means destruction of the planet. When we run into blocks in our mind, we get frustrated and angry. What we don’t understand is that the blocks are self-created. All mental blocks are self-created. This isn’t something to take lightly. We will give many examples of this later in the book.
We can’t worry about other people‘s state of consciousness. The only thing we can worry about is our own state of consciousness. That’s what we’re concerned about here. We can’t force anyone to change. We can’t force anyone to want the Truth. We can’t force anyone to accept Love. Those who say that they accept God sometimes believe that they’re superior to others because of their beliefs. Accepting Love truly, accepting God truly, doesn’t make you more special or superior to someone else. It just makes you more clear. There is no hierarchy in humanity. There is no hierarchy in consciousness. This is confusing to the mind, but there can be no hierarchy. All is one, even those who resist and those who remain in division. They’re also part of the whole. This is all very hard to explain in words, but you will understand as we move forward.
We’re not concerned with how things look on the outside. We’re concerned with how things look on the inside. We’re concerned with how things feel on the inside. You can’t fake the feeling of true Love. You can’t fake the feeling of true peace. You can’t fake oneness. You can’t fake true compassion and connection. We aren’t here to make anybody feel bad about themselves or put anybody down. We’re here to facilitate the lifting up of humanity through Love. We’re here to show people how to come back to Love and stay there. We’re here to bring consciousness into this world. We’re here to shift the atmosphere. We’re here to shift the world to Love.
When you reside in Love, you can see that hate and ugliness and anger and fear are all illusions, reflections of a divided and sick mind. Reflections are not the Truth. Images in your mind are not the Truth. The Truth is not an image.
The place to start is in your own heart. It’s finding peace in your own heart. This sounds very simplistic, but it’s the Truth. It’s the Truth that’s at the foundation of all religions of the world. There have been many attempts to bring Love into this world and create a shift, but something has always been missing. What has been missing is the intention to abide in Truth, the intention to not be distracted by the mind’s illusions, the intention not to be seduced by the superficial pleasures of the world.
When people have said “love is the answer” in the past, what they were truly believing was “my belief is the answer to getting what I want.” And this is what we’re going to let go of now. We’re going to let go of using Love to get what we want. Love can’t be used to manipulate reality. Love can’t be used to create more illusion. This is not true Love. This is a disguised form of ugliness.
We’re not going to reprimand people or make them feel bad for their half-hearted intentions. But we have to point out why seemingly good intentions have failed in the long run. Some people have had the intention for peace, but have not held peace in their hearts. In order to bring peace into the world, you have to truly have peace in your heart. That means letting go of anger and resentment, and all signs of division and separateness.
This is not going to be easy because the patterns of ugliness are so ingrained in the human mind. There are very few human beings who have transcended this as of now. There are very few people who walk amongst us who truly live from Love. And most of the ones that are authentic are not actively drawing attention to themselves. There are only a few authentic teachers of Truth. There are many more teachers of half-truths—teachers who say one thing and do another, or who teach certain beliefs but don’t truly follow or embody them.
Even the most religious of people have pockets of ugliness in their hearts. We have to find all of these pockets of ugliness, pockets of division and separateness, pockets of specialness and grandiosity, pockets of anger and fear, and bring them into the light. We need to bring all shadows into the light of Love. This is going to be our core practice. We’ll start with a little exercise.
Sit in a quiet place in a comfortable position and close your eyes. Turn your vision within and look deeply inside yourself. Go beyond the thoughts and emotions. Go beyond any surface turbulence. Go deep into the stillness within.
If you have a very busy mind and are having trouble finding the stillness, you can focus on one part of your body, like your abdomen. Feel your abdomen rising and falling with your breath, feel the energy of your abdomen. When you rest in this inner space for a while, you can transcend your thoughts and emotions and just feel your inner life force energy.
The next step is to listen to the pulsation of your being. Your being is underneath the life force energy. It is on a deeper level than the energy you were feeling in your abdomen. As we drop down into this deeper level of being, we should feel a deep peace come over us. We should not feel any more turbulence or restlessness.
Keep resting in this space. Keep resting in this space of stillness, of being. Keep resting here as long as you want. Each practice session can get longer and longer. Every day this should be your first practice. And when you open your eyes at the end of your session, you stay rooted here. You stay rooted in this peace within.
There will also be a guided meditation video for this practice.
As we learn to stay within, deep within, and rest in the peace inside of us, we can go beyond the turbulence of our superficial minds. It’s the turbulence of superficial minds that now runs the world, and that’s why things are so unstable and fearful. People with good intentions who are in leadership positions still have some ugliness within. This is important to understand. Even those with good intentions are needing to look within. Good intentions can’t merely be rooted in the mind. They have to be rooted deep within, in the peace within. This is not about any kind of religion or religious practice. This is beyond religious practice. This is auxiliary to any religious practice. This is true peace meditation.
