THE POWER OF LOVE WITHIN THE BIG PICTURE

Five-Day Intensives

Most people have an image of themselves, of life, and the world. Generally, people see themselves as physical and mortal, with life as a brief competition in which you either succeed or fail, and the world as besieged with environmental, climatic, population and pollution problems. All in all, the frame in which we place life is small and limited. 'You only live once,' is an all-too-often repeated phrase.

Fair enough, but there is another, much bigger picture. Yes, we are physical Beings and physically mortal, but we forget we are also metaphysical Beings who are spiritually immortal. Unfortunately, all our focus is on being physical and mortal, and striving toward wealth and security. We live with a heavily blinkered short-term focus on a short-term life, striving to be so-called successful. Like a horse with blinders, we see only what is directly in front of our noses.

Interestingly, in all life the metaphysical precedes the physical. The fact that we are magnificent, metaphysical, multi-dimensional Beings of Love and Light is either seldom realized or completely ignored. We forget or ignore that all life is the creation of Love, that humanity is Love made manifest. We forget or ignore the fact that Love is the principle of creation, not an emotion that causes us to weep, or laugh, or commit ourselves to constant violence. We ignore or forget that as we release our personal demons of insecurity, blame and anger, as we release all our negativity, we become the 'in-lightened' people who, simply by living, express Love and Light into the multi-verse . . . and beyond.

We look at the years of our life as a linear progression, and number our days accordingly. We ignore or forget that in our immortality we live just as surely and certainly in our non-physical life as we do in our physical. We forget or ignore that just as a movie is made from the sum of its many frames, so also our physical lives are the many frames rather than just one. Each frame of the movie we call a lifetime, and each lifetime we spend as frivolously as if it were no more than another ride in a carnival of costumes. The movie, 'The Continuity of Self,' is a movie with many, many frames.

We forget or ignore the greater reality in which we all live, for the blinkers we wear blind us to any view of that. We believe that life is a linear process, one day following the other, thus we generate anxiety for the future along with regret for the past. We forget or ignore that all time occupies the same space, making it as easy and possible to change the past as it is to change the future. We forget or ignore that everything we hold most valuable in life occupies the moment, and that in the moment is held the key to our eternity. Have we ever learned that in the moment is Love, Consciousness, Peace, Joy, and Intelligence? Have we ever learned that while intelligence exists in the moment, intellect is no more than an onlooker? Have we ever learned that life is Self discovering Self?

We forget or ignore that we are Beings designed to experience, become, and continually expand unconditional Love. Love with no conditions! No if, or but, or how, or when, just fully, totally accepting the person or people we claim to Love. We forget or ignore the fact that we share this planet Earth with other Beings who are not visible to us. Our own ancestors walk the paths of their immortality, and we pass them by without a glance. We forget or ignore all that is of a higher, finer vibration than our own dense physicality. We forget or ignore that we are yesterday’s future just as we are tomorrow’s past, and that this scale of life expresses as truly in the centuries of our lives as it does in the days of our life. We forget or ignore our greatness while we so vigorously practice being small. We hail the physical athletes, and even the intellectual greats, while we cringe in the face of those few people with true wisdom. Clever words we applaud, but true wisdom opens doors of such insight that we cringe from the Light that shines forth. We forget or ignore our own Light, for it tends to reveal our magnificence rather than our more familiar mediocrity.

We forget or ignore that in the metaphysical sacred space of our own hearts we are pure Love, fully and magnificently Conscious. We look outside of ourselves for that which is within. We look outside because our Truth is hidden behind the self-made veil of illusion: repetitive criticism, blame, self-righteousness, anger, and all our many emotional attachments. The illusions we have woven are the very fabric of the blinders we wear in our everyday lives. We forget or ignore that where there is unconditional Love for Self, there can be no disease. Within such Love even death is revealed as the impostor it truly is. In our daily lives and in our beliefs - particularly our beliefs - we are making ourselves into pygmies rather than giants, into a mockery of our true potential, as we chase the technological wizardry that we think will reveal our inherent cleverness.

It is a pity we failed to learn that ‘clever’ holds hands with ‘stupid.’ Look at our humanity on this planet today, and tell me this is not true. Look at our ever-increasing physical sickness, along with our escalating anxiety and mental depression, and our chronic emotional problems. Look at our devotion to money rather than our spirit, and our astonishing belief that we can actually drug ourselves out of this quagmire of ill health, and mental and emotional problems.

For those who believe it, of course 'we only live once,' but that once is many thousands of differing tastes and touches of eternity. That once is our sacred immortality. That one life is forever. That once is where and how we learn the rules of creation, creating our own reality while learning that we are Beings of Love.

Yes, there is a BIG picture, a hugely bigger picture, and these few words I have written hardly even touch upon it. But if you accept my invitation to join me in one of these Intensives, exploring Love and the Big Picture, you will find that it is all within Self, all within your own consciousness. You and I, we are miracles of creation discovering that we are the creators of that miracle.

Michael J. Roads

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