Excerpt of Chapter 4 Life Unfolding As the Fruitage of
Attained Consciousness
By Joel Goldsmith
Not Death But Transition
You may have experienced in your life either regret that you did not accept more education when you had the opportunity to receive it, or you may be experiencing great joy because you did accept the opportunity to receive education when it was given you. If you did not accept education, you may have experienced some hardships since then that might have been avoided, or you may not be in quite the position in life you would be had you accepted that education. If you did avail yourself of the opportunity for education, you are probably now in a better position in life because of that acceptance. In other words, what you sowed in the area of education, you are reaping now in a more abundant life.
This same truth applies to your spiritual development after you leave this plane of life. For all of you, there will come a day when this parenthesis is removed, and you will pass from this experience into another. For those uninstructed in truth, it is called death. Actually it never is death, and for those instructed in truth, it is not even a claim of death: it is really a transition from one experience into another. It is very much like growing out of childhood into early maturity, and then growing out of that early maturity into the later years of maturity without having to die to do it. It is a gradual evolutionary process, a transitional experience. Eventually the day will come when you will leave this scene. Those on the spiritual path will accomplish this when their task has been completed, and not before.
Can you know what your experience will be? The answer is yes. The sowing that you do today will be the reaping you do then. The higher you go in spiritual understanding, the deeper and richer the spiritual consciousness that you attain here, the deeper and richer the consciousness that you will have as yours there.
For those who struggle with the word God (and I most certainly did/do), God is the Life Force which makes everything we experience possible. It is a power greater than our little ego self, yet we are absolutely connected to, and interwoven into it. Without “God,” no-thing is possible. God is primary and comes first (before), and will be the last to remain, eternally. We come from and we return to God. When we become aware that all things come to, and shall pass from God, we have broken through the illusion that we are separate from the Divine. We merge with God and know that despite appearances, all is well. *Always feel free to replace the word God with a word that makes you feel more comfortable, for God is beyond all words or description: Life One The Divine The Great Spirit Christ Buddha Consciousness Spirit Breath Awareness Self Oneness The Tao The Brahman Truth Reality The Universe The Ultimate Reality Every Single Thing
I does not differ across time and space. I refers to the spaciousness of being which does not take on the qualities of thought and does not change as our experience changes. When we say I we are always referring to that spaciousness. It is as I that we are one. The I is indivisible, non dual. Isn’t it amazing that we all share this one I? That we all are this one I? What a wonder. That is what love 💗 is. This wholeness. Indivisible oneness.
“BE AN EMPTY PAGE, UNTOUCHED BY WORDS.” (Rumi) An empty page is synonymous to an empty mind, no-mind, still mind, absolutely free from thoughts, words. In this state, the mind is still, unmoveable with uncontaminated, absolute purity. Lots of happenings will be experienced beyond words of description. From this state, when you think, it manifests; when you speak, it manifests; when you act, a miracle happens. Jeremy Ju Huang
There’s no supernatural being called ‘Satan’.
There’s no original sin to be saved from.
There is nothing like ‘Church’.
You never needed a Messiah/Savior.
There is no ‘hell’ or lake of fire.
There is no Great Tribulation coming in the future.
There is no rapture.
There is no end of the world.
There is no ressurection of dead bodies.
Your pastor is lying to you,the same way he was lied to.
You can continue swimming in Christianity’s cesspool of lies or you can wake up and read for yourself.
De Udy Akan
Il n’y a aucun être surnaturel appelé “Satan”.
Il n’y a pas de péché originel dont il faut être sauvé (e).
Il n’y a rien de tel que l”Église’ hors de l’Israël tribale.
Tu n’as jamais eu besoin d’un Messie / Sauveur.
Il n’y a pas d’enfer ou d’étang de feu.
Il n’y a pas de grande tribulation dans le futur.
Il n’y a pas d’enlèvement.
Il n’y a pas de fin du monde.
Il n’y a pas de résurrection des morts.
Ton pasteur te ment, de la même façon qu’on lui a menti.
Tu peux continuer à patauger dans le cloaque du mensonge du christianisme ou tu peux te réveiller et lire la Bible par toi-même.
Reality is one
What is there to speak of?
What more to say?
In truth
Nothing is apart
It is so simple Yet, you must apply yourself day and night To arrive at this simple understanding That will bring an end to your unhappy illusion of separation.
“Whenever you’re weary, whenever you’re confused, whenever there’s something you’ve searched to find an answer to, JUST GO BACK AND BE ONE WITH THE ONE [caps mine]. That’s all there is to it! Be one with the ONE. Give yourself the luxury of Oneness and you’ll discover from the farthermost ends of what is called the earth, the One is ever-present, responding and functioning and being and doing and maintaining the infinite harmony of his own nature. From your shoulders goes every thought and worry and every weight because all there is is the pure Immaculate one. There is no other. You really are that one. Your mind may try to overcome the sense of body, but it’s only the absence of the mind that overcomes the sense of body. Herb Fitch Boulder Creek, Series 3 Continuous God Contact Part II, [transcribed by rjs]
The biggest factor in spiritual healing is to resist the temptation to turn to God to bring about a healing. Instead we must acknowledge that God, Spirit, alone is the cause, the law, and the substance of all form, and that regardless of any appearance to the contrary, we will stand on this truth: “Judge not according to the appearance.” Appearances may testify to a sin or a disease; appearances may testify to something or other not of God, but if we judge by appearances, we are going to be a slave to appearances. To be free means to acknowledge that all that God made is good, and anything that does not conform to that standard is not God-ordained and has no law of God to enforce it.
To discipline ourselves not to turn to God expecting God to do something for us, is itself an indication of the difficulty of embracing the spiritual life, because the very idea of expecting God to do something for us suggests the idea that God is not doing it for us now. That is a denial of the truth that God is the same yesterday, today, and forever. It is a denial of omnipotence, omnipresence, and omniscience. To believe for a minute that God can do something for us after we have given a treatment or been given a treatment is a denial of God. The treatment should consist of the understanding of omnipresence, even before we pray.
“Before they call, I will answer.” Before they call! If we believe that God is going to operate after we have prayed, we have misunderstood the nature of God and have cut ourselves off from God. God is not going to act in the future. In God there is no time: no past, no present, and no future. There is only now. Now is the only time God is, and all that God is, God is now. All that God is ever going to be, God is being now; all that God ever was, God is now. All that God was in Galilee two thousand years ago, God is here and now this minute. All that God did in the Holy Land two thousand years ago through Jesus Christ, God is doing at this very moment, in this room, through us. Just as “God is no respecter of persons,” God is no respecter of time. God did not pick two thousand years ago as the time to do healing work and leave all the people before that and all the people who have lived since then out in the cold. There is no such God.
Everything is an activity of consciousness and, therefore, we consciously, sometimes even unconsciously, cut ourselves off from God by accepting the opinions of the world. But we can stop that nonsense any time we choose and realize:
‘What God was, God is, and what God is, God ever will be. God is omnipresence; God is omnipotence; and God is omniscience. God is, and that is enough. God is here and now where I am. “The place whereon thou standest is holy ground.” Here where I am is holy ground, for I and the Father are one. There is no separation between God and man! God shows Himself forth as man. God shows forth His whole glory as man, and that man is here and now, the man I am.’
We open our consciousness to this truth and, as we embrace it, we embrace the whole of the Godhead. If we do not open ourselves to the truth, we are closing our consciousness to God, but that does not prevent somebody else’s embracing it. “A thousand shall fall at thy side, and ten thousand at thy right hand; but it shall not come nigh thee,” if we open our consciousness to the truth of omnipresence.
J. S. Goldsmith: The Art of Spiritual Living. Chapter Six; Demands of The Spiritual Life; Resist The Temptation to Turn to God; Kindle location: page 102-104
