The Final Frontier
4/08/05
When all that you have done has
not brought you what you truly desire, isn’t it about time to move out of
the box ask questions and make changes?
What would you think if you went to your doctor and he hit
you over the head with a rubber hammer to knock you out before some minor
surgery? Does the horse and buggy now serve you to take you to work each day?
Would you settle for going down town to the telegraph office, to have a message
sent to your aunt across the country? Could you possibly get along without your
cel phone, fax machine or microwave oven?
The answer is "of course not." We have evolved and our world
is moving much too quickly to rely on out dated technology to serve us. At some
point in our lives we look at our situation and re-evaluate what works and does
not work for us. Our old Commodore 286 computer could not handle today’s demands
for speed and reliability and we would consider it insanity for any company to
rely on this technology.
Our truth is as fluid as the water that covers the planet,
and it changes everyday as we re-evaluate and recreate the circumstances of our
lives. Mankind has learned to adapt to the changing circumstances and how react
to them. Most of the time we can plainly see what works and does not work in our
lives, and yet there is one area where we are plainly stuck in the box, where we
consciously ignore the obvious and put blind faith into something that has never
worked. We are so highly motivated by fear in this area of consciousness that we
most often turn our thoughts away from it, and hope that it will all work itself
out in the end.
From the time we were born we assumed our parent’s morality,
ethics and believe systems. After years of trying to get our own way, we gave
into what we thought our parents, our siblings, our community and religion
wanted from us, or we were in conflict with them.
Many of us who were brought up in the churches caved into
their doctrine. We once again ignored the obvious, and the early training at
home left us with little resistance for the religious leaders that would teach
us to follow blindly, with little to show but promises of something greater to
come in the future, and eternal damnation if we did not comply.
We did not understand why the promise of peace on earth and
abundance was not happening in our lives, why praying didn’t get us what we
wanted and were we wanted to go. Yet we could not reject or question the
doctrine and even in as much as we intuitively knew that we were been giving a
line of BS, we wouldn’t dare call it that, just in case there might really be
some truth to it, in case we would be punished. So great is the fear that we
have blinded ourselves to the obvious fact that what they taught us did not
bring what they promised.
We have grown up, we have evolved and we have moved on.
However we still carry the burden of outdated, archaic belief systems that are
holding us back. Old values are just that, they are old and do not work in a
modern society. God (creator) is life; life and God are two words that are
interchangeable. Life moves on and is constantly changing. Now substitute
the word life for God in the last sentence and see how that works.
Everything in the system is moving except for our thoughts about what we were
taught to believe. We know it doesn’t work, still we push those thoughts away
less we be damned for even thinking them. Blind faith has never worked; it just
allows you to give into the status quo and move around the questions gracefully
and remain relatively safe.
In order for spirituality to work in this century and the
next, we must change our thoughts about what we have been taught in the past. We
must question what we observe that does not work and make modifications and
changes that better reflect our new awareness and enlightenment. Life (God)
changes and so must we. We must embrace a new concept of whom and what the
creator is. We must give way to the fact that God is not a vengeful, warring,
angry, vindictive God. We must give way to the fact that everything is God, life
is God, we are God manifesting in physical form and we are all connected. We
must know that God does not punish and hand out everlasting damnation; it is OK
to question and change our belief systems. We will not go to hell or heaven;
those are only manmade concepts of the afterlife. We do not have to be parented
and we are absolutely free to explore our own individual spirituality without
retribution from God.
That which created us is that which we know as unconditional
love, freedom and life, always changing always moving towards perfection. That
which has served us before no longer does (if it ever did?), and by the very
nature of what God is, we must change our image of him/her. God is not an
anthropomorphic being with physical emotion, and as we are created in his/her
image so God must change as we change our image because we are the same.
Man has evolved, has changed but he has left his spiritual
awareness at the back door. In order to move to the next step, humanity must
once again know itself as spiritual. You can not find God because you already
are God. God is the sum of all of its parts. It is life, freedom, choice and
unconditional love, it is who we are, and it is our inheritance, God is all
around you, everything is God including you. It is the life force that creates
all that is. Life creates only life, it does not judge and it has no preferences
or needs; its only will is to create more life. Mankind created itself in this
form because this is how it saw itself in the physical world.
There are no rules except for natural laws that govern
physicality. All physical laws are man’s laws. Man cannot project his laws onto
God or into the afterlife; they are valid only in the physical world. God’s laws
or commandments are interpretations of what man thought God wanted and there is
nothing that God wants as God is all that is and therefore has no wants. God’s
laws were a convenience for humanity because it took away the responsibility for
man to govern himself, they do not exist. The real power and responsibility for
these laws was always with man.
The final frontier will be to explore that which is already
known but has been forgotten, that which is in each and everyone of us
individually and together, forever connected, separate but never apart. We
cannot move forward until we leave the old image of God behind, we cannot evolve
spiritually until we know that that the anthropomorphic God no longer exists.
The next step is not into outer space but inner space. The final frontier does
not take a space ship to get there, it is all about communication and making
time to travel inward and it is also the recognition that we are all connected,
there is only one God, one life force and we are that which we call God.
Roy is a resident of British Columbia, Canada. An international published author, a student of NLP, spiritual philosopher, New Age Light Worker, Teacher and Phenomenologist. Roy's books and articles are thought provoking, and designed to empower your imagination.
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