Editor’s Note: For the next several months this space will be used to explore — one-by-one — the messages, metaphysical principles, and spiritual meaning of the material found in the nearly 3,000 pages of the Conversations with God dialogues. This series of observations and interpretations is offered with my continuing disclaimer: I could be wrong about all of this.
CWG Explored/Installment #4: The three opening messages
The Conversations with God dialogue opens with a statement of singular importance. That statement: We are all One.
“All things are One Thing,” we are told. “There is only One Thing, and all things are part of the One Thing there is.”
We have spent considerable time exploring in this space the idea that Separation ofanything from anything does not exist in the universe. Nevertheless, the idea that it does continues to persist.
I believe that this notion that we are Separate from each other and Separate from, or “other than,” the Essential Essence and the Foundational Energy of the cosmos (which some of us call God) creates the most “drag” on humanity’s evolutionary process. In other words, it slows down our forward movement toward becoming a civilized species more than any other single idea.
Right now we are not a “civilized” civilization. We are more advanced than we were several hundred or several thousand years ago, but we are not yet civilized.
No species that allows over 650 of its offspring to die every hour of starvation, and cannot find a way to stop it, can claim to be civilized.
No species that allows 20.9 million women and children to be bought and sold into commercial sexual servitude every year and cannot find a way to stop it can claim to be civilized.
No species that allows over 3 billion of its members to live on less than $2.50 a day, and billions to have no access to health care (some 19,000 children die each day from preventable health issues, such as malaria, diarrhea and pneumonia) and cannot find a way to change this can claim to be civilized.
No species that allows 1.7 billion of its members to live without any access to clean water, 1.6 billion (a quarter of humanity) to live without electricity, or 2.6 billion to exist without basic sanitation, and cannot find a way to improve these conditions — even after twenty centuries of trying — can claim to be civilized.
Evidence suggests that there must be something we do not fully understand here about Life — the understanding of which could change everything.
The first three messages of the Conversations with God dialogues offer us some suggestions along those lines. I believe they are, in fact, all that we need to create the life for which we all yearn. Following the initial message that we are all One are these two additional noticements:
— There’s enough.
— There’s nothing that you have to do.
The first of these points to the fact that there is a sufficiency on this planet of everything humanity needs for every member of the species to live a wonderful and joyful life. All we have to do is simply share. Yet it is our idea that there isn’t enough of what we all feel we need to be happy, and so we have created a global society that competes with itself and struggles against itself.
The second of these two points offers a new way of looking at the solution to our problems. It suggests that we end our emphasis on “doing” and place our emphasis on “being.”
When what we are doing in our world emerges from a new, from an expanded, from a higher, state of being, we will find ourselves meeting the challenges of physical life automatically — without us “having” (that is, being “required”) to do anything in particular.
The statement “There’s nothing that you have to do” does not mean that there is nothing that you will do as you live your life. It means that there is nothing that is demanded, commanded, or required of you. It invites a deeper exploration of the concept of allowing one’s personal “doingness” to proceed from one’s personal decision regarding how one chooses to “be” in the world, rather than the other way around.
Presently, many human beings “do” things because they think these are the “right things to do” if they wish to “be” kind, or “be” caring, or “be” loving. They do something in order to feel a certain way…rather than feeling a certain way before they do anything, and allowing what they do to emerge from that.
This may seem like nothing more than a play on words, but the messages of Conversations with God assure us that there is more here than meets the eye.
When we embody a particular and specific State of Being ahead of time — not in response to, but in creation of, an experience of Self — we generate outcomes in our life virtually without effort…and, most noticeably, nothing is left undone that would eliminate suffering in the life of any other member of our species.
The State of Being that CWG suggests that every human being embody is what it has called “divinity.” In other words, our highest selves, our grandest love, our greatest wisdom, our deepest compassion, and the embracing within us of all the other most wondrous aspects of our True Identity.
(No species that is being Divine and demonstrating Divinity by being compassionate, caring, and loving could allow the conditions noted above to exist for another 24 hours…much less another century.)
A person who walks through the world holding the Identity of Divinity deep within changes the exterior experience of everyone else everywhere she or he steps, every room he or she enters, every space she or he occupies.
If our entire species walked through this world holding such an identity deep within, it would produce Heaven on Earth.
The question is, what could cause our entire species to do so? And that will be the topic of our next entry here. Until then, Merry Christmas everyone! Have a wonderful holiday week, and Happy New Year!
I am here and my life and testimony is proof of “tomorrows God”!
[Originally posted at TheGlobalConversation.com. Y’all might want to visit there sometime. The comments can be quite lively!]
I’ve already addressed my thoughts and ideas about Oneness in the previous installments. In short, I think there is a creative energy, appearing to me as intelligent and/or containing information, that underlies the basic building blocks of all creation. Those building blocks have been theorized but are as yet unproven, which means there cannot yet be any study of that creative energy, which I call Divinity or God. I have, however, come into contact with this Divinity through meditation, near death experiences, premonitions and sudden knowings, among other experiences.
I rely on the second of the three opening statements on a daily basis. Regardless of my circumstances, I know that there will be enough for Biscuit and myself each and every day. How do I know this? Because he and I are still here, now. And that’s no small thing.
I just turned 57 recently. That means that for 57 years, or 684 months, or 2,964 weeks, or 20,805 days (not counting leap years), or 499,320 hours, or 29,959,200 minutes, or 1,797,552,000 seconds, give or take, I have had enough of what I needed to continue to live. Why, then, would I question that there would not be enough in the next moment or minute or hour or day?
That’s not to say that I haven’t had to do my part in going out to find what it is that we need. If all I were to do is stay in my home, expecting what I need to come to me, I would quickly find out that we’re lacking. But my animal loving neighbor has donated enough food for Biscuit to last until the next check. I searched the Internet, made phone calls and got in touch with my case manager to pick up food from local pantries. I empty the local business ashtrays of their “snipes” so that I can use the tobacco to roll my own cigarettes. (I’ve tried every means of quitting and none have worked. It is my final vice.) l wash my clothes in the sink with the samples of shampoo picked up from the motels we stayed in when first homeless.
Every time I go to a food pantry, when I get home I go through what I’ve been given and give away to my neighbors the things I can’t or won’t eat. Christie’s clothes and excess household items are being donated to local thrift stores that provide vouchers for people in need. If I have a pack of cigarettes, I share them with those who have none. I turn out the lights in every room when I leave it. I don’t leave the water running when I’m doing the dishes. Yes, those lower my bills, but also provide what I don’t waste for others to have.
But that’s all on a personal level. On a local or state or country or global level, it appears that there isn’t enough, as Neale so heartwrenchingly points out with the statistics in his column. I believe that it is about appearances. The problem, as I see it, is that in a competitive and fear-driven world, some believe it’s appropriate to hold onto more than what they need. People hoard money. People waste food, or demand such a high price for food, shelter, clothing, water, electricity and sanitation that they are out of reach for a very large part of us. Greed causes corporations to put at risk some of our basic needs, like clean water to drink and land to grow food and air to breathe.
If those who have many times over what they need would share just a portion of what they have, many lives would be saved. If those who are so proficient at finding tax loopholes instead paid their fair share, many lives would be saved through the services that could be provided, instead of Medicare being put on the budget chopping block every fiscal year. If lobbyists didn’t pressure the government, and if government representatives didn’t fund unnecessary pet projects, many lives would be saved in the same manner.
Which leads me to the third of the statements. As I see it, many people are living as less than they can be. Somehow, somewhere, someone gave them the message that they are not all of who they could be, much less who they are. That they shouldn’t strive to be more. That they should stifle their individuality, which may be the very thing another needs. That they shouldn’t listen to that still, small voice they hear, nudging them to believe they are more. That they should care only about those who are like themselves and close their hearts to those who are different.
If even a large minority of us had compassion for all of creation because all is One at the Source, the world would change drastically.
If even a large minority of us understood that there is enough for everyone if we would but share a portion of what we have, the world would change drastically.
If even a large minority of us understood that living as the grandest version of the greatest vision of who they can be, much less who they are, would provide them with peace, joy and love regardless of what they do, the world would change drastically.
We are at the time and place, here and now, where drastic changes are necessary.
Love and Blessings Always,
~Annie