A Starting Point

A Starting Point

With everything we think, feel and do….there is a STARTING POINT. In other words, ALL of our thoughts and feelings and actions come forth from a specific “place” deep within our psyches….they don’t just randomly come to us….they bubble up from the depths of what we believe in our hearts about Who, What and Where we actually are…right in this present here and now. Our starting point is something like the little machine you find at the bottom of a fish tank. As it quietly runs way down deep in the tank it constantly produces bubbles that rise to the surface of the water. Even if we are unaware of the little machine…we can’t help but to see and even hear the constant stream of bubbles it’s activity appears as.

And so with us….way down in the depth of our hearts, we have something like this….a little machine, actually two little machines or pumps, that are constantly emitting two diametrically opposed belief systems and stories about Who and Where we are….appearing on the surface of our awareness as our believed Identity, our self-concept and the story of our life in time.

One machine is pumping out a story that tells us we have and are… separated from God and from our Self as Her beloved and changeless Expression. Out of this belief of separation, which this little machine lying at the bottom of our psyche is continually pumping out….comes our entire experience of human hood or the mental state that still believes it is living apart from Heaven. Human hood is the experience of duality….where everything has an opposite….where there is love and fear, safety and danger, goodness and evil, light and darkness, Spirit and physicality. In this dream of separation, even where there seems to be beauty, love and happiness…lurking around the corner, somewhere, waiting to pounce on us, is its supposed opposite. And on a deep level, even more terrifying for us, human hood is the state of belief that we have truly lost our precious Identities as Children or direct Expressions of Divine Love, that live, move and have their being, in a spiritual Universe created out of Love without opposite.

This is a very simplistic way of stating this, I know, but I love simplicity and feel we can all benefit sometimes from it.

Anyhow, this machine tells us stories about who and where we are that perpetuate our belief that we have become and still are…. separated from our Source, that we have actually changed ourselves from being Expressions of perfect Love, Light and eternal Joy, forever and ever embraced in our Home of perfect Love and Safety….to being people in a scary world, where everything and everyone is separated….and subject to everything but the Love of God…..living in a universe of conflict and opposites rather then within Her eternal Gift of Safety and Peace. As long as we continue to listen to the thoughts, feelings, emotions, pictures and images that come forth from this belief of separation, this particular machine….we will cry….and every tear, though it seems to be because of all the sad things that happen to us and around us, is really an expression of the grief and profound despair we all feel in believing we are no longer and have lost forever….. the Beautiful, Free Beings that we really are.

This machine or thought system though….with its full story of an identity and life and experience other than Love and a Universe other than Spirit……is all made up……and as we desire to awaken from its false story and the dream of separation it spins out for us….with all the thoughts, feelings, and images that support it….we discover a wholly different ‘machine” with a whole different story that we can and must consciously turn to.

This other machine or thought system or Voice is a completely different Starting Point….based on what is real and true rather then false and made up. This Voice tells us that we are NOT separated from Love, that we have NOT ruined ourselves, that we DO live, move and have our being in a Universe of Love, that we ARE Beloved of God and Children of Heaven rather then Children of the world. Connecting with this machine or Voice connects us with the thoughts, feelings, emotions, perceptions, and perspectives that bubble up from It…..and awakens our hearts fully from the dream story of living apart from Reality.

Two “machines”….two Voices, two stories…..living deep within our psyches…..”Choose ye this day, whom ye will serve.” or in more current language…. whom we will listen to, learn from and think with. In everything we think, feel, do and are….which STARTING POINT do we want to be consciously connected with?