3-34. Child of God, if you believe you are just a body, or that you can perish, you are only dreaming. Awake. Love is your Home. Return. There is no reason to wait even one moment longer.
What are we to make of this grand illusion of the cessation of consciousness after the body’s functionality has ceased? What are we to interpret from metaphysical inquiry and anecdotal evidence cited without any currently feasible method of verification? Are we to accept on faith that which is recounted to us of the experiences of others who are certain of their memories of prior lives lived, so well described but, at least as of yet, remaining outside of the realms of reproducible scientific inquiry? What indeed, if we are to proceed purely from a materialistic perspective that must delineate a singular origin for awareness - the interaction of billions of neurons in the brain as well as those dispersed throughout the body, so well tuned to their environmental stimuli that they produce a cascading effect that appears to be a simulacrum of consciousness, but which cannot possibly encompass the totality of all that awareness can possibly describe or encapsulate within the meagre mechanisms of communication. To look from the lowest, most dense and most temporary manifestation of All That Is - material reality - and ascribe to it a creative faculty that it has never enjoy is simply error. Science is valuable indeed, but it has limits and because of those limitations, it is absolutely possible that there will remain mysteries of the totality of Creation that remain wholly untestable with the processes of the scientific method for vast stretches of time yet to come. If ever it were to be possible to verify empirically that all that is of God is actually Real, what value would such a grand accomplishment of scientific enlightenment really accomplish? Would such a verification of the Nature of All That Is alter the Creation of God in any manner? Would such a concise summation of Truth be necessary before any Child of God could venture in to the very center of their own heart to discover the Truth for themselves? The final and most important hallmark of all of Creation is the miracle that occurs when experience is transcended and transformed into Experience. Through such a miracle, no longer is proof requested or doubt entertained, for that which is Experienced cannot be denied or subverted by the ego’s illusions. It can only be Accepted, for it transmutes beliefs into Realities that are so very Certain that no pondering of their nature is any longer entertained by the soul that has journeyed so very far away from the ego’s darkened pits of isolation and despair. That you are not a body is a simple pronouncement and statement of Truth, but it will appear otherwise if you continue to wish to reverse the levels of Creation. The body, and all of the components of the material world that so effectively sustain the functioning of the body, are final effects of a cause that is non-physical in every meaning of the word. Your mind is not an effect of your brain, but rather the necessity for and subsequent arising of a brain with sufficient computational resources necessary to serve your mind is the correct pattern from which Creation was expressed in the human form. Your mind is not physical - even the most stout defenders of rationality and scientific inquiry, to the exclusion of anything that is not verifiable, would have to acquiesce to such a statement. Only madness would reign supreme if it were to be believed that thoughts, or the mind that conceives of them, are comprised of physical matter or even energy. Neither of these ideas have any prima facie merit, and so they can be readily dismissed and disregarded. But what are we to make of the formlessness of the mind and its so very expansive scope? What are we to conclude from this first principle as so stated - that mind is not bound by any physical mechanisms of expression, for it is not an effect of the brain and its biochemical/electrical signaling networks, no matter how complex they might be or become? Even through the most rigorous bounds of logic, if we are to accept that mind is the first mover, then all that is physical must be an effect of mind and a causative framework of contemplation and awareness arises as a singular mechanism for the creation of the physical manifestations necessary to allow such a creative impetus to be expressed within the world of form. In more direct terms, that which of the universe of formlessness gives rise to the world of form by necessity and direct requirement - never the other way around. If, then, you are as of yet ready to accept that it was not the gestation of your body that created your mind, what is it that you are genuinely ready to propose as a justifiable rationale to convince yourself, or anyone else, that physical death must entail a final conclusion of your mind? Such a proposition is wholly unsupported by any logical extension, assuming you are ready to accept the first principle of consciousness as it is presented. And so from the rigors of linear inquiry do we see the arising of a new foundational principle that cannot be readily avoided - that mind must continue after the brain which supports its expression in this world fails to function. In the reverse, we could inquire as to what it was that you remember of your mind before the time when you began to record conscious memories, generally after the period of your initial infancy. Do you remember? No? No matter. What need have you of all that transpired before this particular incarnation, if the only purpose of your time in this world is to forget All That Is so that you could effectively entertain your continuing belief that it might be possible to be separated from God and cast out of the Kingdom of Heaven, perhaps for an affront or a transgression that you cannot possibly present as containing any genuine justifiability at all. What occur before served you, of that you can be sure. How it served and what was released is of no consequence to what is to transpire now, for you are most certainly present in the moment that is unfolding right now, no matter how little attention you wish to address it with. In any moment, you can cease looking outwards for the certainty that lies within. In any moment, you can cast aside all that is of the ego and take up again all that is of God, for all that you require is already present in your heart. There is no “secret” to Awakening to Love. Nothing is hidden from you. Nothing need be sacrificed so that you can Remember Love. Nothing need be given up so that All That Is can be taken up again, instead of the illusions of a belief in separation that cannot be accurately or effectively presented as evidence of itself, for it is a belief in an error in Creation and you will be certain, when you are ready, that no such mistake was ever committed. Acceptance of the Perfection of God must constitute an acceptance of your own as well. There can be no other way, for to accept that you were Created by God, and that God is Perfect, the only logical extension of these two principles points directly to the conclusion that all of the Creations of God - which must, per force, include you as well, are Perfect as well. This is all that you are asked to Awaken to - that the Divinity of the Perfection of Creation extends to All That Is, and that you are an integral, inalterable and indispensable expression of that Creation. Or you can continue to wait, if you should so prefer. It is not important that you Awake to your Home within Love if you are not yet ready to do so. You can slumber a while longer if that is what is best for you, right now. An infinity of Peace awaits. Your sleep serves you not. Your choice is the fulcrum upon which your entire existence is leveraged. What it is that you choose will define all that you believe to be real, and more importantly - what you Experience to be Real. Once Experienced, there can be no return to illusion, no collapse of certainty and no constriction of awareness. You are free to elect what is best for you. Choose to believe that you are a frail body, and that you will perish if you so wish. You will be most surprised indeed when you do not upon the moment of your body’s terminal loss of functionality, but why wait? What is gained by demanding undeniable proof, when such a Certainty is already eternally accessible in your heart? Look within for that which you previously believed must exist somewhere without, and you will find that God has always been Unified with you, just as you are, for you are Perfect and you are Loved to an extent that cannot be expressed - it must be Experienced, after which it will never be forgotten again.