Author: richmatt48

When Yeshua speaks of love he is not speaking of worldly love. Worldly love is a sentiment, an attachment to another who makes us feel good about ourselves and reinforces our individual identity. Worldly love is an infatuation, an inflammation of passion and desire often accompanied by lust, it is consumptive by nature and like a fire it eventually burns out once it has consumed all the fuel in its path, and then all we are left with is the bitter ash.

Fritz Kunkel defines romantic love (Eros) as falling into the unconscious where we unknowingly project the deified idealized image of our contra-sexual parent unto another, and fall in love with this deified image. This deified image soon fades away and we are left with the person we never really knew. Therefore romantic love truly is an illusion and once the illusion is gone we must choose to love the other without condition or pretense, this Love is called Agape.

You may not be able love the person, the persona for it is just a mask, it is the false self, an imposter, but you must love the suffering imprisoned soul behind the mask people wear. We must learn to see past the offending behaviors of others to see the wounded child within, and then to move past the wounded child to see the Divine Spirit within all people, the same Spirit that abides in and unites us all. God is Love and so is the Spirit within all people. We are love, created in the image and likeness of God, and so is our “enemy”.

Mystical love, which is the only true love flows from the indwelling Spirit within us and extends to all of Creation without discrimination. In the world of man dominated by the self serving rational mind, it is best to think of love as a deeply rooted feeling of compassion, full of understanding and empathy, overflowing with self sacrificing kindness. When compassion is fully flowing it feels like you can never do enough for the other, you desperately want to give all that you have for their benefit expecting nothing in return. It is an emptying of self for the sake of another, it is the true meaning of meekness and the meek truly shall inherit the earth, and experience the Kingdom of God. In contrast worldly love makes us feel better about ourselves, it is an infilling not a self emptying.

It is the conditioned responses of the traumatized child that our ego finds offensive, to truly Love another we must set our ego aside, love flows outward from the awakened heart. Unconditional love is beyond the capability of the egoic rational mind of man. All unawakened people are spiritually sick, they are suffering from a sickness of the soul caused by their childhood trauma. You may not like the symptoms of their dis-ease, their conditioned responses, but you must love the wounded child within.

True love is a choice, we respond with our hearts and not from our own preconditioned egoic defensive strategies, we must choose empathy and compassion. The people we find most unlovable are those who were the most traumatized as infants and who among us cannot love a wounded child. Resisting the “evil” in another reinforces their egoic defense strategies. Therefore resist not evil, we must not judge, we must not condemn nor punish, but love our enemies and do good unto all. We must always remember that those with the most offensive behaviors were the most offended as children, they have been punished enough, and are most in need of loving compassion. Love heals all things and all that remains is Love.’

And God told Adam and Eve

“You must not eat from the tree of the knowledge of good and evil; for in the day that you eat of it, you will surely die.”

But overcome by temptation they partook of the forbidden fruit and immediately they looked down and seeing their nakedness, they identified with the flesh and sacrificed their Spirit, they felt ashamed and covered up their bodies so as not to be seen and hid from God.

Judgement had entered into Paradise and Paradise was lost, for the first fruits of judgement was shame, and shame produced the feeling of separation one from another and from God. Feelings of shame and separation always produce feelings of loneliness and feelings vulnerability ensue. Feeling alone and vulnerable we are afraid and fear entered into the realm of man. And fear produces all want and desire, the source of all evil. And from that day to this man has identified with the flesh and its mortality.

Yeshua said resist not evil, for evil only exists in the mortal rational mind of man. Evil was born of man’s judgements, his partaking of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, and the very first thing they judged was their own flesh, and they covered themselves with fig leaves, and full of shame they hid from God.

Yeshua said thou shalt not judge, and yet every day we are consumed with judgement, fueling our evil desires that lead to death. And all desire is evil, even desiring God is evil for it comes from the false sense of Separation, which we now know comes from the judgement tree. Yeshua said want not for your indwelling father knows what you need, and that all things, even apparent evil works for the good of those that love God. Buddha said desire is the root of all suffering, and suffering is the appearance of evil.

It is our judgements and resistance to that which we judge as evil that separates us from God’s Indwelling Kingdom, anchors us in our mortal flesh and consumes us with fear. All desire and all suffering is born of this fear of the mortality of the flesh, and our identification with it our flesh.

Adam and Eve lived in Paradise as long as they identified with their Spirit, but as soon as they identified with the flesh, Paradise was lost, and the appearance of evil entered into the realm of man and consumed him. Yeshua knew that evil was an illusion born of the rational mind of man, a mind separated from the Mind of God, while in reality the Spirit within us cannot ever be separated from the Mind of God. Every crises faced by man is a Spiritual crises that can only be truly solved by re-identification with our Spirit and abandonment of the the flesh. The carnal mind is enmity with God, and man’s wisdom is pure foolishness with God. Resist not evil, but trust in the truth and the truth shall set you free of all fear and desire. To live in the Spirit, to be free of all judgements, attachments, fear and desire, returns us to Paradise. We must choose to live in the Kingdom Of God within us or in the external world of man, with all of its suffering and death.

1 Timothy 5:6

But she who lives for pleasure is dead even while she is still alive.

James 1:15

Then after desire has conceived, it gives birth to sin; and sin, when it is full-grown, gives birth to death.

The meaning and purpose of life.

All humans are born with an a priori knowledge or intuitive knowing of Unity Consciousness, buried deeply within the Heart, and not in the mind of man. It is from Divine Consciousness that all created life arises and to which all life returns, consciously or sadly unconsciously. We must become conscious of the fact that our true existence is an aspect of God’s Consciousness, that we truly are a Loving thought in the mind of God and it is from here that the created Self arises temporarily into the temporal realm in order to become fully conscious of itself and return to Love as yet another aspect of God’s ever expanding Consciousness. This a priori knowledge of Unity Consciousness must be raised up from the Heart into the mind of man so that he or she can reclaim the Unity experience and embody the uncreated, unborn Self. All that is created will pass away, only that which knowingly abides in God’s Consciousness will remain in the realm of permanence. “Do Ye not know that you are Gods”. We are here to become God Conscious and to reside within God’s Consciousness forever. That is which gives life meaning and defines your purpose.

The white man is not native anywhere, he lacks nativity, a oneness with nature. It takes ten thousand years to become native and it was ten thousand years ago that man split with nature and formed a dominating, adversarial relationship with Her called the agricultural revolution. The agricultural revolution arose out of man’s fear of death, not out of his love for Life. And it truly was a revolution, man revolted against nature, and here we are, facing extinction. 

Nativity is a harmonious integrated relationship, while industrial man exists separated from Self, Nature and God. There is no “We” in the “I”. There is no We in the unintegrated self and therefore no nativity, and no true sense of belonging. Belonging cannot coexist with conformity and obedience, belonging is the natural state of Individuation, or Spiritual Maturity, where one belongs to ones Self, to God and to Nature, a completed sense of Wholeness felt at the intuitive, creative, experiential level of Consciousness. 

If you examine all of man’s so called progress, you will see that all the so called advances in science, health and technology have been driven by man’s all consuming fear of death.  And that prevents him from loving and accepting life on life’s terms and not as he would have it be. It is this fear of death that binds us to the temporal material realm, the realm of illusion, suffering and impermanence. 

#nativity

Consciousness is the only true Church of God.   Where Consciousness is there is God also

The House of God is formed by our personal ethical, moral and creative attributes that arise from our awakened Consciousness and are grounded upon the rock of faith, which in turn is grounded in Compassionate Wisdom and Love. Intelligence is not Wisdom, intelligence often lacks compassion, while Wisdom never does.

Wherever Consciousness exists therein lies the true Church of God, and like Peter we must become that Church, grounded on the Rock of Creative Insight. Insight that arises from communion with God.

Life is about Consciousness, we must awake from our stupor and rise up into Consciousness, we must of we die.

We are in the world to overcome the world, to rise up in consciousness, to become Enlightened, and participate from the mind of the Creator as equals and Co-Creators, that is the sole meaning and purpose of life. 

But driven by our five outward oriented senses, that are fully attuned to the outer realm man has become detached from the Spiritual inner realm and has become immersed in the outer or material realm. Man has become totally dependent on externals, and has abandoned the inner life. To meet his ego perceived needs man depends upon external government, law, worldly religions and technology. All these external forms demand conformity, obedience and an externally imposed ethic and morality, all of which causes the death of inner growth and creativity. 

If we are to attend to and pursue the true meaning and purpose of life all of these externalities must be abandoned and we must seek fulfillment by following the inner, or narrow path and elevating our state of consciousness. We must develop inner structures and an inner morality and ethic based upon compassion and Love, which can only be achieved by elevating our level of consciousness to a state that taps into the source of Love and Compassion, which is God. We cannot choose to be more loving and compassionate, our Hearts must be filled through the experience of Love and Compassion from its source. 

Our reliance on outer structures must be replaced by following the inner way, the  path of inner confrontation or Spiritual Warfare, where good vs evil. It is the path of Individuation where we confront the source of all evil, our ego and bring it into subservience to the Authentic Self. We must unify all the split off aspects of our True Self which were repressed in early childhood by the ego into consciousness where they can be reunified with our True Self, and create an integrated, unified internal structure that is whole and complete. The purpose of evil is disunity and disintegration, while the purpose of good is Unity and Integration, a life fully integrated with the source of all life, a life whose purpose is to serve life itself. We were born into the world to pursue the inner path and grow through all the stages of consciousness, from infancy, childhood, adolescence and finally maturity where we truly can become the Sons of God, living in a conscious state of Unity, unified in purpose, life serving life. 

Most people find their identity in the pack or packs they belong to, they identify with the herd, whether that be their church, political party, job, social network or country. They sacrifice their true identity in order to belong. They conform themselves to the group in thought, feeling and belief in order to fit in. But many of us have always felt lonely even in the crowd. We long to belong, but feel lonely inside. Separated from our Authentic Self we feel lonely inside. 

Addiction is best understood as a disease of belonging, as we medicate our discomfort caused by the “Breach of the We”. This separation from Self is the source of our dis-ease. Until we become truly Self-Centered their is no cure for the disease of belonging. Most people in life suffer from some form of addiction, defined as a pathological relationship with some mood altering substance, activity, experience or behavior. We are driven to distraction, to distract ourselves from our inner dis-ease, that inner sense of loneliness or feeling of emptiness inside. But no matter how hard we try to conform to our group, we never really feel acceptance inside. We constantly seek approval, but approval is fleeting and is soon lost. The need to belong is the source of our loneliness, but it can never be satisfied by a life of conformity, and group identity. We must go within, and abandon the group identity to find our True and Authentic Self. It is the Self-Centered life that restores the “We”, and heals our sense of loneliness. We will always feel lonely living an other-centered life, but being Self-Centered produces a true sense of belonging as we reconnect to the “We” and enter into an elevated state of consciousness called Unity Consciousness, a non dual state where all sense of separation is lost and all become One. 

The path to individuation, development of ones True identity is by nature a lonely path. Mans innate tribal or herd mentality, which represents a lower state of consciousness creates the desire to belong, and an outward conformity to gain acceptance from the herd. As a result we rarely see true individuality, but instead we see a generalized conformity to the herd psychology or way of being in the world. Identification  replaces identity. 

To elevate ones state of consciousness demands a break from the pack and a response to the call from within to discover ones true identity. One cannot be conformed to the herd psychology and way of thinking and being and pursue the path of individuation. It is this break with the pack that is the source of our loneliness. As we respond to the inner calling new ways of thinking and feeling evolve that further separate us from the herd, we realize we are not like them. Our thoughts, values, beliefs and feelings are different from them, we seem to have nothing in common anymore, we are realizing that we truly are unique. The more we realize our uniqueness the more lonely we become as nostalgic feelings arise in response to our loneliness. But if we stay on the path of individuation our inner world opens more and more and we begin to feel a sense of connection to something within, as we are drawn in deeper and deeper a true sense of belonging to the Life Force within develops and we feel at home in our own skin. We may be alone and detached from the world but we are no longer lonely because we have become One. 

The ego has become the center of conscious life and controls the content of the egoic self-centered mind, while ninety percent of our life is repressed into the unconscious, and is unknown to us except in our dreams. The Authentic-Self lies repressed at the center of the unconscious life waiting to be resurrected into consciousness, and our true life can begin. The unconscious life is like the ocean and our conscious life is but a dory drifting aimlessly on the surface of Life tossed about by the wind and the waves. 

Yeshua and all the great mystics throughout the ages have told us we live in the realm of illusion. Our egoic mind which is totally dependent upon the five outward orients senses leads us into this illusionary realm. The ego uses the rational mind to convince us that we are flesh and blood, and not of the Spirit. If the rational mind can not see, hear, taste, smell, or feel it, it cannot be real. The ego does not believe in anything it cannot understand, and God’s Wisdom is foolishness to man.

Yeshua and all the great mystics agree, we must turn around (repent) giving up the outward oriented life for the true life within. The ego must be harnessed and retrained to serve the Authentic-Self, the person you were created to be.   It is the only Authentic-Self that is capable of having a relationship with the Creator, the false-self is unknown to Him. 

The ego believes its individual soul is immortal and this is the great lie, the great deception or illusion, that we were sent into the world to overcome. The immortal Soul is the one living in Unity with God and in relationship to the Souls of all men. Becoming Conscious of The Creators indwelling presence through the Authentic-Self and developing that relationship is the stairway to Heaven. Becoming Conscious of Gods indwelling presence, the life force within, is the rebirth. Being born again as Spiritual infants we must use our self-will to force the ego to nourish and feed the Spiritual infant, so it will mature into the Son of God. We must expend our worldly life until it is totally consumed if we are to have the immortal life. The immortal life is the life of Bliss Consciousness, and can only be attained when the Son returns to the Father, and they are reunited as One. At One with each other and at One with the world. 

We must die to this world before we die, to have eternal life. We must sacrifice the life of illusion (suffering and death) for the gift of True Life. 

The only true religion is the Personal Inner Way, one must believe in and seek the Spirit within. As our awareness of God’s Spirit within us grows we begin to develop true faith. 

Most people die because they act as if they are immortal, while those who truly are immortal have already died.