Hey Sheri,
I'm really starting to get stressed about a couple of things and I was hoping you could provide some insight. I was raised in a Christian home, so I'm sure you can imagine (and somewhat relate) to having a strong religious background and trying to comprehend all of this stuff without feeling a great deal of guilt and inner conflict. I can feel in my heart that these things are true, that the world around us isn't real, it's just hard to understand, especially when nobody else around me sees things the same way.
Here are the two things I'm having a really hard time with.
1) Duality - You talk in the book about the difference between the physical body and the energy body. I read something a couple of days ago that said that science has recently proven that there is no such thing as duality, that in fact both our body and our spirit and every object or thing we can see or touch are all made of the exact same energy, or light. I don't understand how you can do things with your energy body if in fact your physical body is made of the same stuff.
2) Dreaming - You talk about alot of things in the book that are hard to imagine, like doing things in your dreams, making things happen, etc. What kinds of things are you talking about? I've also been reading about Creative Visualization, which states if you visualize and meditate regularly about the things you want that the universe (or whatever you want to call it, the Intent) will make it happen. Is this the same concept as dreaming? Making things happen that are seemingly impossible? Can this be applied to things most people want, like finding their soulmate, or finding financial freedom, or even more seemingly impossible things like flying or talking to people through our minds?
I know I'm probably asking pages worth of questions, and I don't want to take up too much of your time. I just need to understand these things because I'm feeling so overwhelmed, like my head is gonna explode with all of this new information that I can't fully comprehend.
Thanks so much for you time, again, Stressed!
Dear Stressed,
Why use this information to hurt yourself and feel stressed? Notice how we humans like to hurt ourselves and make ourselves sick rather than at peace.
Yes everything is energy - of course. But energy can take many forms. Your kitchen table is energy but is not the same as a flower is it? You are LIFE itself and you are moving your body which would not be alive if you were not in it. Same for all things that are alive. Your kitchen table is not "alive" - life force does not move through it so it is not animated. When you die you leave because you cannot stay in a dead body. You leave your body because that body can no longer function and life cannot stay in a non-functioning body. You are eternal but your body is not. Life is eternal. Life can be called Spirit or even God.
I believe Jesus understood this when he said he was the truth, the life and the way. We are all the life and the truth when we are no longer mind/ego associated. We can say that Jesus went into the desert for 40 days and transcended his ego mind. When he left he was enlightened as they call it in eastern traditions. I feel that Jesus was trying to show us the way - which means "path" in ancient tongues. And he did - if you follow what he did you too will have enlightenment - which is to see the light. Unfortunately the church I feel has misinterpreted that to mean that you must state that he is your savior - no - for me that means that you must do as he has done because there is no other way to God-consciousness than to do as he has done.
We can say that in the 40 days Jesus cast out the devil - or better said, the tree of knowledge from his mind. The tree of knowledge and the snake/devil that lives in it is simply your entire mind/ego/programming that allows you to judge and condemn everything and everyone. After the desert Jesus no longer judged - but he did tell the truth - or the "what is" because we was the now the truth and the full expression of life. In Christianity they have the concept of God-imminent: God that lives within. But the average preacher does not have the background that Christian scholars have and there is so much to the religion that the average person is never taught and many things have been distorted. That is why there are so many branches to Christianity - so many people have argued about what things mean. Hopefully one day these things will be resolved within the church.
But this is how I see it from my own experience of dying to myself and merging with God. I don't see conflict anymore. I just see peace. I know that God/life/spirit is in all things and of all things. In this world there is duality because it looks like everything is separate but it is not. It is like this. Take white light and refract it through a prism. You will see millions of wavelengths. You are one of those wavelengths and so am I. We are different yet - we are all white light. There is only one life/god/spirit and we are all part of that.
Anyway - you are not required to believe any of this. In fact I suggest that you do not and instead let go of everything you rigidly believe and live life open to experience. Then perhaps you will have the same experience as I have and so many others and you will come to your own conclusions. But know this - there are so many religions and philosophies trying to express ONE truth. There can never be one right way to say what is unspeakable. You have to experience it and then try to speak about it the best you can.
Next, dreaming is not visualization. It is the shamanist side of our tradition as is about using the energy body. It is not for us to teach unless people have transcended their ego minds. Who wants to teach such a thing to have people use it for egoic or evil purposes? No it is not for trying to get something you want in the realm of duality. It is a gift to use for the highest purposes we can in life and hopefully we are guided by spirit to put that talent into use for the good of all humans.
Just be open angel - you do not have to figure anything our with your mind - it is never really going to understand anyway - as this is in the realm of the heart and the soul. Spirituality is not about adopting yet one more belief system to add to your tree of knowledge so you can use it to judge others or even yourself. It is about freedom.
Blessings & love, Sheri
