Experiencing Your Greater Self

And so we may think this is so uncompromising, so difficult, so mysterious, so hard. But the deeper part of us I don’t think feels that way. It knew it would be like this. It knew it would be a challenge. It knew this world would be going through its greatest period of tumultuous change, perhaps in history. Our deeper nature is wired for this. It is ready. It is not upset. It is not disturbed. In fact, this is perfect for its expression, for its greatest gift to be given.This is the time. This is the context for that gift. And of course it’s hard. We knew that.

And the New Message is giving us these openings to have a remembrance of how we saw the world from beyond the world; what the world looked like from the other side before we came; how it will look to us once we leave. It’s constantly opening that door saying, “Look through this door. Look at your life from the perspective of those who watch over you even now, that Angelic Presence that watches over all life in the world. Look from this vantage point.”

So what has been such a struggle—life in this world, for example—can be seen from a different perspective, from a different self, so…

So, here we stand at the cusp, or in the middle, of a great journey, the journey, really the one thing to be done in this life, which is to wake up, to realize that who you are is not your body or your mind; and to have a deeper sense of who you are arise naturally within you; and to take the journey of many steps; and bringing the thinking, surface separate part of you into contact—even marriage—with the deeper part of you, to allow that deeper part of you to express itself.

So that’s the mysterious process underway. And it calls for movement. It calls for self-acceptance. It calls for us to be kind on ourselves—seriously very kind—because this is a great challenge for a human being. And it’s not going to be graceful. But it’s so purposeful. And what alternative is there? To go back asleep, you know, in the world and recommit to all the appearances of wealth and pleasure and power and possessions and all the stuff that basically dominates the thinking of most people? You know, as the New Message would say, to rejoin the chain gang, those who are slavishly walking down the side of the highway of life; just mindlessly meeting the needs of their culture, their society, the needs of those around them, their fantasies and ambitions and all the things of the mind that are just unquestioned—just conditioned in our years growing up in the world. Do you really want to join that line of people walking down the highway of life who can’t determine where they’re going, who don’t know where they’re going, who are working and efforting slavishly for things that may not really matter? I find that to be a completely unacceptable option. There is no option. Failure’s not an option—you’ve heard that before. Yeah, you heard that by those on that Space Shuttle, traveling God only knows how many tens of thousands of miles an hour on their way somewhere on a mission.

And I think when you open up the books of the New Message and begin your study, you start to realize that, “I am here on a mission. I didn’t just wash up here. And now I just, I’m gonna, you know, you know rejoin consciousness and become enlightened and just kind of depart this very uncomfortable place.” You know, it’s like as soon as you realize you came you want to leave.

Well, you came because you chose to come; because this world needed people of a greater spiritual depth—lineage—to give to this world at this time. So we chose to come. And now we’re waking up to the mission for which we came. We came to do certain things with certain people.

And so I say to myself, “Failure is not an option.” And I think of that mission. What other option really is there?