{"id":109155,"date":"2019-08-15T17:49:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-16T00:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/?p=109155"},"modified":"2019-08-16T13:28:47","modified_gmt":"2019-08-16T20:28:47","slug":"on-the-way-to-spiritual-awakening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.msia.org\/newdayherald\/archives\/109155-on-the-way-to-spiritual-awakening","title":{"rendered":"On the Way to Spiritual Awakening"},"content":{"rendered":" \u00a0 \n

The thing we\u2019re seeking, as if it\u2019s yet to be discovered or found, is always with us, breathing with us in whatever is involved.<\/em> – John Morton<\/p>\n

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This article comes from a sharing that John had with participants in a PTS Masters of Spiritual Science class on April 13, 2019 in Los Angeles. Fall enrollment for MSS-1 is now open visit msia.org\/mss<\/a> to learn more.<\/strong><\/p>\n

Often, spiritual awakening is something like the opposite of what we think. If we keep thinking it must be a certain way, we may get frustrated and discouraged. We have an order of experience in which it doesn\u2019t work the way we think it should-would-could, which is all conditional language.<\/p>\n

So then, the approach is a kind of letting go. Another word is surrender. Another word is acceptance. Another is open to what is. And there\u2019s the irony. It\u2019s when we give up and let go, the spiritual awakening can be ushered in.<\/p>\n

Another aspect is that Spirit won\u2019t inflict. It cannot do something that would be against your creatorship. It\u2019s your choice. We need to invite and allow.<\/p>\n

We can\u2019t really be separate from what is, even if we are allowed to have that separation. You may think that we\u2019re separate, but we\u2019re not. There\u2019s another aspect in which we need to come into cooperation.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s an invitation. And that\u2019s the part in which it can take great courage. The mind might think, \u201cWell, that\u2019s how you do me in. I give up all my control. I become vulnerable. And now you slay me when I trust you.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s when we think that what we\u2019re dealing with is somebody that\u2019s trying to take over, get us out of the way or terminate us, so we need to be defensive. We think we need to be on guard because we\u2019re vulnerable. Spiritual awakening doesn\u2019t work like that. It works as a kind of submission.<\/p>\n

The words that we teach in initiation then become your experience. In the initiation there are keys to unlock the flow of Spirit. Those keys bring forward a flow, opening up the door and showing us whatever fears and doubts we would have, whatever restrictions we would have about allowing this divine presence to come in.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s not so much it comes in; it\u2019s more that we allow what\u2019s already with us. It\u2019s always been with us. There is another irony. The thing we\u2019re seeking, as if it\u2019s yet to be discovered or found, is always with us, breathing with us in whatever is involved.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s another aspect I would call dedication, devotion and endurance. It\u2019s when you keep on going even when it seems like nothing is occurring. The last frontier is a kind of emptiness or a void. We\u2019re crossing over and opening ourselves up and it appears as though there\u2019s nothing there. It\u2019s a great void\u2026the divine unknowing.<\/p>\n

We keep going even though it seems like we\u2019re not going anywhere or nothing is happening. You may think, \u201cIt\u2019s useless. It won\u2019t work.\u201d Then we hear a voice saying, \u201cYou win if you endure to the end. Endure beloved. Keep going. Don\u2019t stop.\u201d<\/p>\n

There is some level of that companionship that will pick us up no matter what. Even if we die, it doesn\u2019t die. Then it\u2019s like, \u201cHey, breakfast is ready. Get up!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI thought I was dead.\u201d<\/p>\n

You were just kind of sleeping. We don\u2019t die. That\u2019s another illusion. If we\u2019re going to pick it up, we might as well pick it up now. That\u2019s wisdom. Why wait to pick it up? If you\u2019re going to pick it up later, pick it up now. Rise up now. Resurrect now. Come alive now. In other words, keep doing what you\u2019re doing.<\/p>\n

The key is to keep going no matter what. You just do whatever works. Stay open to what is showing you the way. In a way it\u2019s picking you up because you know how to walk but you\u2019ve forgotten, or you\u2019re too tired to walk or something like that.<\/p>\n

There is mercy in the consciousness, but it has a forum. We need to love what it is. This is to love God with all your body, mind and spirit. All the prophets know this. All those chosen to play at a higher level into the highest levels know this.<\/p>\n

If you go into a pattern like judgment or againstness, it doesn\u2019t work. It never works. Some people equate that with punishment, and it\u2019s really that we\u2019re punished by our own ways. That\u2019s what punishes us, not our source. Our source has far better things to do than punishment. It doesn\u2019t punish.<\/p>\n

We can realize we\u2019re the ones who\u2019ve been punishing. Give it up. That\u2019s a key. To love God is a big giant key. \u201cWell, how do I love a God that seems like it\u2019s forgotten and forsaken me and been unfair?\u201d Those are common stories of those attempting to go into the experience of the greater oneness, but don\u2019t make it.<\/p>\n

What \u2018makes it\u2019 is a devotion, love and doing what you know how to do and doing it well. At some point you get responsibility in what we call service. If you\u2019ve been given and endowed \u2013 then help others. When we\u2019re really helping others, it\u2019s uplifting. It\u2019s the thing to do. It\u2019s what we want to do.<\/p>\n

There is a part of you that will test you by questioning, doubting, finding fear, etc. That\u2019s OK. You can keep going just by doing what you\u2019re doing. It is to your benefit to practice what works for you and let go of what doesn\u2019t work for you. That\u2019s nothing new. You\u2019ve heard all that before.<\/p>\n

Have the wit to let go of what doesn\u2019t work. That\u2019s one of the signs that you\u2019ve become a more effective, efficient, and a higher source creator in what you\u2019re doing. It shows up in the blessings, the benefits and the grace that comes forward. You become more and more aware of God in your presence. God is a force to be reckoned with. If God be for you, if God be with you, who could be against you?<\/p>\n

God can take care of it, because God created it. If you get more and more into that attunement, you\u2019ll make right choices. You\u2019ll be right with God.<\/p>\n

There\u2019s a certainty that transcends the mind, even if you don\u2019t know the rationale or reason that it\u2019s being done the way it is. Some would call it blind faith, like, \u201cWhy are you doing that?\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know. God called me to do it. That\u2019s all I need. God is for me. That\u2019s all I need to know.\u201d<\/p>\n

More and more you\u2019ll be shown so you know how to keep that sacred. Often, it\u2019s not meant for the masses. When God wants it distributed for the masses, God has ways of doing that in God\u2019s way. Often what\u2019s being shown in the higher consciousness is not meant to be cast like pearls into the world. It\u2019s precious. Why would you give it away? Because it\u2019s so much fun to have others go, \u201cWow! What happened? I get their attention and recognition and I love that!\u201d You just gave away what was given to you, and it\u2019s going to be awhile before you get it again. Then maybe you\u2019ll learn how to hold it sacred.<\/p>\n

Consider that what others would allow has been done. There are also opportunities they pass up on whether that\u2019s the Traveler, the Christ or whatever else. They do what\u2019s theirs in their own ministry. They\u2019re in their own process and it\u2019s not for you to control.<\/p>\n

When we get altitude, we can see why it\u2019s happening precisely in the way it\u2019s happening. It\u2019s not something that is in Spirit, which is where everything goes. We all converge in Spirit. All things are integrated in Spirit. Things that are not in Spirit disappear. They\u2019re like mists that evaporate.<\/p>\n

There are a lot of things that in Spirit are no more because they never were anything in the first place. They were like an image of something and the image doesn\u2019t have any energy because it\u2019s getting all its energy off the source. It\u2019s only in existence because of the source giving it reflection. At some point, reflection is no longer necessary, so the image goes. But if we\u2019re attached to the image and reflection, it\u2019s powerful. It\u2019s got God\u2019s power in it, so these things are powerful.<\/p>\n

Part of what is there to understand is that God\u2019s ways are good. Then, if you don\u2019t understand it, go into acceptance and trust in God. Whatever is going on is something working itself out.<\/p>\n

In large part, when we re-embody, we\u2019re picking up where we left off, and that\u2019s not necessarily full of Light and Sound. It can be, \u201cWow, I really made a mess of it for a long time.\u201d There\u2019s a lot surfacing out of the unconscious levels because God doesn\u2019t give us anything we can\u2019t handle. The karma\u2019s not exploded all at once, because who could handle that? It\u2019s administered as we can handle it.<\/p>\n

Understand there\u2019s a Traveler and the Karmic Board engaged and monitoring what comes in. Then things can really be done in a very efficient and effective way. That isn\u2019t necessarily about fame, fortune and easy street. It can be, \u201cLet\u2019s get this karma cleared, balanced, completed and do what can be done in this lifetime.\u201d<\/p>\n

That\u2019s where the Travelers focus as much as we can handle, as much as we allow. If we would allow the Traveler to guide and show us the way, and then go that way doing that to our full capacity, it\u2019d be amazing. We\u2019re the limiting factor where we hold back or resist.<\/p>\n

The responsibility you have to take care of yourself is real. If you need to go to a neutral corner where you don\u2019t see, hear, or read about something, just having a sense, \u201cI don\u2019t need this right now and I don\u2019t think I can handle it very well,\u201d then that\u2019s the neutral corner.<\/p>\n

Go get your rest. Go do what you need to do to take care of yourself. And when you say, \u201cOkay, I\u2019m ready to go back in,\u201d ring the bell. Whatever you do, if you can be doing loving, caring things, not hurting or inflicting yourself upon someone, you\u2019re in good territory.<\/p>\n

Is it loving? Is it authentic to who you are, your true nature? Be aware of that. Sometimes we\u2019re programmed in the emotions or in the mind to go into a behavior that\u2019s automatic. It\u2019s because we\u2019re triggered by whatever our conditioning has been. That can take a while to clear so you\u2019re not in a reactive state and it\u2019s too late. Like havoc has already been wrecked and you realize, \u201cI did this?\u201d You did and then there\u2019s that understanding, \u201cI didn\u2019t need to but some part of me just had its way.\u201d Okay, but you\u2019re responsible as a creator for this mess, for what you did.<\/p>\n

This is the kind of thing to stop before it gets going. That can take a lot of discipline, so you disengage before you \u201csee red.”\u00a0 It\u2019s almost as if I asked if there were a person wearing red in the room and yes, there is someone with a very bright red sweater on. I\u2019m not going to look there because I\u2019m a bull and I will charge them. I\u2019m going to get out of the room and put myself in a corral and make sure the gate closes behind me.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s just understanding the nature of yourself. If you sense you\u2019re about to burst and punch somebody, you might want to get out of range. You don\u2019t allow yourself to be in range of somebody, saying, \u201cI was wanting to punch someone and here you go,\u201d and then it\u2019s too late. It\u2019s learning how to know your rhythms and knowing when you\u2019re reactive or overflowing.<\/p>\n

Get on to a consciousness that knows how to transcend through grace, through correct choices. You may have to walk through a karma, but you do things so maybe you have blinders on. Or you go, \u201cLa la la la la\u201d and that works. How did you get through that? I just kept saying \u201cLa la la la la.\u201d I didn\u2019t listen to whatever else was going on. It can sound silly, but if it works, use it.<\/p>\n

Things that work for you are your toolbox. Light, love, pause, being grateful, doing or saying something kind. These things work.<\/p>\n

God bless you.<\/p>\n

Baruch Bashan<\/p>\n

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