Ascension and the Journey Home

8
ENDING THE ILLUSION

How can you move into the center of the circle of truth? Just outside the circle of truth is the illusion. To move into the circle of truth, you must do an extremely difficult thing. You must remove the illusion. What makes it difficult is that you will want to make every offering and sacrifice possible to avoid destroying the illusion. You will want to continue the dance of the illusion, to give your mind, body and spirit to its presence. Why? Slaying the false reality and giving up the illusion means giving up your particular addiction to it, giving up what gives you a high, a thrill. But that thrill is part of the lie. You may comfort yourself, feel good about yourself, and feel sure what you say and think is truth. You may believe down to the marrow of your bones that you are right, almost with a religious fervor. But that does not make it true. It is merely the blanket of faith that you wrap around yourself. Mankind has wrapped itself in that blanket to the point of slaughtering entire cultures in the name of what is right.

Standing in the center of truth is knowing that you are God's child. From that standpoint, who are you to judge others or even yourself? God's way of working is within the individual's unique sense of perception. It's not dictated by the order of society or by the specific doctrine of any religion. It is between that individual and God. It is between you and the truth. Who, then, are you to judge? How can you justify looking at another person and passing judgment? How can you judge yourself? If your line of reasoning is that you have spent years studying some philosophy or religion, and by what you have been taught, you are right and all else is wrong, you have missed something along the way. It's for every man, with fear and trembling, to work out his own relationship with God. It isn't between you and someone else, or dependent upon a church, a religion or some form of worship. It is between you and God. To perceive love from the center of truth is to be totally non-judgmental. It is to understand that "All Is Forgiven, Including Yourself".

The most difficult part of this entire process is being deluded into thinking you are in the center of truth when you are not. What will point this situation out to you? Know that the choices and decisions you have made and the perspective from which you have lived your life has been from the darkness. Don't argue with this realization or fight with it, but allow it to become a part of your new perception you try out. These thoughts may make you uncomfortable. You may have had a religion which you felt was the truth and in which you were comfortable. You may have been perceiving some of the truth from the darkness, but that is very different from being in the center of truth itself. Rather than perceiving truth from the darkness, step into the center of truth and perceive everything around you from the light of truth.

What is the truth? God is and You are.

To move into that center of truth and look at the way you expressed yourself through your life experiences and relationships will reveal your human nature. To glean this to optimize the way you live, especially if you are coming to the end of life's experiences, acclimate yourself to Your true identity, the person that You are in eternity, and look at how you conduct yourself in your daily life. If you are not conducting yourself as the spirit You truly are, then you are living a lie. If you desire to live here in the flesh as a loving, eternal child of God, compassionate and giving, then you have to make changes. Navigate your course! What truly moves you into the center of the circle of truth is to bring forth your eternal perception into your human perception. When you give up past human perception, giving up the self deception, you end the illusion.

That old perception then ceases to be. In other words, the life you have had until you enter the circle of truth has been an illusion. From that center, you know simply that God loves, and that he wishes you to be happy and prosper. He leaves you to your personal method for working it out. From time to time during various religious, spiritual, emotional or meditative processes, yoU may have come temporarily into this perception, but when you move into the circle and ultimately deal with the illusion, you learn to maintain Your position there.

It is a sacrifice because you surrender all the justifications for your actions, all your rationalizations, and your judgment and condemnation of yourself and others. This is done by going back through every single action in life and recognizing it, changing actions and reactions to situations and events, the way you made decisions, the way you conducted yourself in life, the games you played. That doesn't mean you will walk around telling the truth all the time or that you will never do a bad thing. What it means is that you change your sense of perception.

All of this is our vanity, and our growing sense of perception of self is the purpose of the illusion, to give us that sense of ourself. It doesn't mean you will be falsely humble. You have a mind and a consciousness in an animal's body that you must deal with. But you can deal with it very differently if you are outside of the influences that the animal believes are real and can see it from the eyes that perceive the truth. You no longer will condemn the animal, the human. The idea is to bring the human animal into the light. Bring into the light that mortal being that You are, the animal of your flesh. Know that yoU can actually give that animal immortality, because you have embodied its sense of perception. Love thyself!

Once the illusion is slain, every action that is taken, every thought you think triggers a cascade of ideas, situations, events and circumstances that come to you so that you can perceive them differently. Your actions and reactions from then on become a confirmation and affirmation of the union of the human animal and Your eternal spirit.

The way of the Work, is to live in the light itself. What light can you shine accurately into the illusion of the darkness? From the human, the angle would be wrong, because you would try to reflect the truth off of your perspective from the darkness and end the illusion with it, whereas, once the totality of the truth hits you, standing in the center of the truth, the illusion passes by Your perception of truth and is seen for what it is. What usually happens in the cascade that follows is that memories or thoughts bubble up from childhood through adulthood and from past lives in the form of visions, dreams, inspiration and guidance. These memories enter the light of truth, revealing whatever is false about them. Thus, you change your sense of perception in dealing with past memories and everyday life events, because all must now be calibrated to Your perception from the center of truth. This does not happen in a moment. It is an entire lifetime or lifetimes that will be reprocessed. If you are diligent and deal with the issues as they come up, you will awaken from your delusions. You will see that the reality you have been experiencing can be as profound for the eternal entity as life and death are to the animal. And the reward is this -- you gain a unique sense of perception. Eventually as an eternal entity is able to look at the stars of all the galaxies, able to look at all the universes folding and unfolding beyond time and space, you will remember that as the child of God in this illusion, in this experience which is simply your dream, something extraordinary took place -- you found out who you really are. Let us not forget that in this process there may come that time of fruit without blossom.

This is an extremely intimate act. This is the greatest intimacy with yourself you will ever have in life, because it alters the way you perceive yourself. This is your view of reality in every finite detail. It's what you were told when you were a child. It's what you thought when you were a child. It's what you felt when you were a child. It's what you felt through every stage of your life until you approached this moment. It's every hope, dream, desire, want, like, dislike, all influencing what you will keep in eternity. But what you don't keep is the perception that created it, the situations and events that governed your thinking processes, the ones that made you choose this action or that emotional response.

You can choose to dance around until your body dies, or you can come to the center of truth. If you do step into that circle, you receive a new life in exchange for the old life you surrender. It doesn't necessarily mean that you get a divorce or quit your job. What will change is how you choose to experience life. The obligations and responsibilities to other people change because there is an eternal entity embodied in the rest of your life experience. You are present in this form as the individual you are in eternity. You are now within the flesh of mankind but you are not of the flesh. You are within the flesh, saving the animal, saving the mind, reorganizing, and restructuring. And you can take it all Home with you to eternity. That's the salvation that is spoken of. It becomes the true nature of the eternal spirit to do this. You will go by instinct once you enter the circle of light, dealing with the past, dealing with the present and creating the future.

The eternal being's assimilation of the change isn't something you have to force yourself to do. Spontaneous memories and events come across the mind like a movie. It is an automatic process for the eternal spirit to re-evaluate life experiences. However, it's best if you have a teacher, a master, or a friend that can share it with you, who can stand in the center of truth to help you as you begin your processing. It can become very swift, very rapid. It may take months or years for some, or just a period of weeks for others. It depends upon how diligent you are. There are many small, finite things in your life which you react to at every moment and which are literally creating your future. When you truly can perceive truth, and start the acclimation process, it becomes a fire that consumes your life experience. From that fire, you glean understanding.

Entering the circle of truth is an act of free will. The single most important key in bringing about the permanent new perception is this: If you exclude one thing that must be faced, or accept a lie passively, it becomes a cancer that will bring the illusion back to life. You cannot be passive. Your free will holds your greatest power and the greatest danger to you, because with it, you can recreate another lie that can be just as strongly held in your consciousness as what is true. It is a commitment to weigh out all truth from day to day, from moment to moment, being constantly on guard against mental self-deception. You are dealing with the consciousness of an animal that has natural instincts that are lustful, violent, and aggressive, and whose greatest survival instinct is fear. Once the animal is truly standing in the light, it will come to face the darkness. It will fear the lies that would lead it away from that light. This moment of massive growth is completely internal and personalized. In that moment, you are actually taking the responsibility that you could be wrong and will be wrong and will be constantly readjusting yourself to the truth. Then you glean from it your own sense of perception, which is passion, which is love in action with life.

Love and life experiences on earth are the most valuable things you possess here, but the earth is only going to live so long, it is a finite experience. Earth or Gaia lives within you and within each person that has lived here. It will be unfolded for each of you throughout eternity as an Archangel of experience, a Beloved to your children. The sweet memory of earth in its complexity, its every detail, every leaf that fell upon it and became soil and part of another tree, will be what you take with you into eternity, recreated by you, to exist as it does now for you. That is the treasure you have as an inheritance for being in this life experience.

So, even though life outside the circle of truth is an illusion, it does have a validity not to be discounted, a validity that can be enhanced by how you conduct yourself within this illusion. In dealing with the illusion, all your habits of creating negative emotions or experiences must be understood. If we come into the center of the circle of light and truly lay down our old understanding, WE will glean from the past the jewel of truth, the light, the fire, the love that burns within Us and lights Our way home, illuminates Our way to God and to Our true identity.

When you are struggling, it is obvious you are not functioning from the center of light. If you are struggling, then you have misplaced your true identity as an eternal being. If you can perceive yourself in a different light, then coincidences, circumstances and events will unfold whatever is necessary to make that perception manifest itself in your life and within you. The doors of coincidence control or synchronicity, will open beyond your earthly expectations, because your motive itself converges with the intent behind your life experiences. The jokes, the humor, the laughter, the love, the light, the happiness will bombard you in positive ways. Even as you deal with negative issues or other situations, you will always come back to the center of truth.

The greatest battle is as old as time. It is the battle within self, the battle for self, the battle for your true identity. When the light illuminates every action or lack of action in your past, every action in the future, you have confidence to make decisions that will create the future you desire. At this time, one activity tolls like a bell within the consciousness, and that is aiding in the ascension of mankind. On a personal level, it means processing your life from beginning to end and transforming yourself into an eternal being so that you, the living person, can go Home. You are a vast eternal being, much more than what you can perceive that you are in one lifetime, but you will always be able, in the humility of the animal, in that child's eyes, to see the wonder in a leaf, to look at the miracle of a moment of kindness, to feel the joy and pleasure of a simple, natural sunset. That's the treasure of participating in life.

Kindle within yourself a desire for the light of understanding. Step straight forward into the circle of truth and turn around. Let the cascade come. Harvest the treasure of your life. You are a child of God. But there comes a time when childhood ends, a time to grow up.

You are an eternal being. In that simple truth, turn from the lie and the illusion. Seeing all that you have experienced within it. Then your old understanding ends, and you will live free from that lie and sense of perception. Then, every day is a new day. Every moment is a new moment. Co-creating your future. Change yourself in every way necessary to attain that future. Realize who you have been and what you have put yourself and everyone else around you through. Change whatever you need to in order to co-create the life you want to experience in this reality.

To accomplish this means far more than words can express. It is more than thought can think. It is more than emotions can feel. It is more than the earth and all the history of time. It is so profound that there is no gauge by which you can measure it. But once measured or experienced, all other things become gauged by it. It is beholding God in your own mirror, seeing the child that is the product of its father, seeing the image of God inside yourself. It is stripping away the mask, the illusion, the lie, the life experience we wear on the surface. It is stripping away the mask of how you want to be seen, how you want to see yourself, how you really conduct yourself. It is the truth within the soul. It is the eternal entity separated totally from this life, yet joined with it in every part and every detail of every experience at every moment. It is the dominion of the eternal entity, the savior of yourself and the savior of the animal. It is freedom from the pain that has been created. It is simple happiness, joy and peace, enjoying life as it was meant to be enjoyed. It is the fun, excitement, adventure, the mysticism of life's experiences filled with overwhelming, overflowing happiness and love. It is new life experiences of loving and being loved, as God manifests His love through other people and situations in a never ending, new changing way. It is standing in the circle of light, and seeing God expressing Himself as you, perceiving yourself in joyful life experience. It is very profound to be loved by God, to feel His love within the wind, within the hands of one another and to see it in action within the reality that is then created.

God's love holds within it the keys to all the mysteries of life. It opens the doors of possibilities that are infinite, the doors of talents, cooperation and participation in a divine Work. It opens the doors to life experience that is fulfilling and rewarding in its own individual, unique way, in a smorgasbord of riches for the human animal of life. It is the laughter of the soul. It is the healing of the mind. It is redemption from death. It is that which is and always will be, with the insight and understanding of how precious life experience is.

Within the circle of truth, you truly begin to turn and face your Creator, not out of fear and trembling, not out of fear of rejection, not out of fear of disappointment, but with open eyes and an open heart, knowing you are loved, that "All Is Forgiven, Including Yourself", and that you are welcome in your eternal dwelling. It is finding that your life experience is merely a room within your eternal mansion where earth is born again within the history of your lifetime, where all the things that have happened are recorded. These are treasures without end. What a great privilege to finally see how the mystery of life works, to perceive for yourself how the mystery unfolds for each individual so that they can share and experience this light of truth. What joy to experience the love that is within each of us, to touch one another as the hands of God, to care with the compassion of God, to understand with the wisdom, the insight and the kindness of God, given one to another.

This is a freedom that transforms you into an eternal being, participating fully in life, until the time is fulfilled for the ascension Home for mankind. It is your awakening from the dream of life, the dream that will be cherished as your greatest treasure.

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