Putting Ourself Back Together

Thanks to our dualistic belief system, things are understood as being “good” or “evil”, “black” or “white”, etc.; when in fact things can be both or neither.  This logical system arises right at birth … when we first feel separation and we first make the assumption that there is an exterior, objective “not self” which is outside of our control.  It is a short hop from that assumption to the whole idea of soul, spirit, and “God” being separate from our physical being.  

That sense of separation grows as we become aware of the gap between our ideals and our physical reality … hence the ideas take hold that we have “fallen” from grace into physicality and that if we screw up in this lifetime we’re doomed to an eternity of suffering.  Because physical reality is a reflection of our beliefs, we start to perceive that humanity itself is doomed.

Life can really start to take on new meaning and joy when we “put ourselves back together”.  Meditation can be a good way to do this (if the practice is not clouded in limiting beliefs), communing with nature can help too.  Ultimately, the feeling of spontaneous exuberance or brain-stopping love (sometimes referred to as ecstasy) is probably the most profound moment of connection that we can sense with the rest of our being and with All That Is.  We each had a lot of those moments as infants, before layers of limiting beliefs were imprinted through culture, religion, education, etc.  

That “inner child” is alive and well in the present and remains another channel of connection with our Inner Self.

“Most of you understand that All That Is is within you, that God is within creation, within physical matter, and that “He” does not simply operate as some cosmic director on the outside of reality.  You must understand that the spiritual self also exists within the physical self in the same fashion.  The inner self is not remote, either – not divorced from your most intimate desires and affairs, but instead communicates through your own smallest gesture, through your smallest idea.

“This sense of division within the self forces you to think that there is a remote, spiritual, wise, intuitive inner self, and a bewildered, put-upon, spiritually ignorant, inferior physical self, which happens to be the one you identify with. Many of you believe, moreover, that the physical self’s very nature is evil, that its impulses, left alone, will run in direct opposition to the good of the physical world and society, and fly in the face of the deeper spiritual truths of inner reality.  The inner self then becomes so idealized and so remote that by contrast the physical self seems only the more ignorant and flawed.  In the face of such beliefs the ideal of psychic development, or astral travel, or spiritual knowledge, or even of sane living, seems so remote as to be impossible.  You must, therefore, begin to celebrate your own beings, to look to your own impulses as being the natural connectors between the physical and the nonphysical self.  Children trusting their impulses learn to walk, and trusting your impulses, you can find yourself again.”

(The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events, Session 872).