We are all connected to the same life force, and we all manifest it differently.\u00a0 Long live the difference.\u00a0 If we were all the same, life would get awfully boring.\u00a0 And yet, in the higher sense, we are all the same, because we are all manifestations of the One life force.<\/em> – John-Roger<\/p>\n This article by John-Roger was originally published in the Movement Newspaper, July 1979.<\/strong><\/p>\n We are all connected to the same life force, and we all manifest it differently.\u00a0 Long live the difference.\u00a0 If we were all the same, life would get awfully boring.\u00a0 And yet, in the higher sense, we are all the same, because we are all manifestations of the One life force.<\/p>\n The life force comes from Spirit, from the realm of Soul and the positive energy that is of Soul.\u00a0 Then, in a lesser sense, our life force comes from the physical body, the emotions, the mind, the imagination, and the unconscious.\u00a0 And many times, because we dwell on the physical earth, which is part of the negative realms, the life force will appear to be coming from these lower levels.<\/p>\n As a spiritual being living here on earth, your job is to differentiate between the spiritual life force and the manifestations of it on these lower levels.\u00a0 Your job is to realize that when someone hits you on the arm, they are not hitting the life force within you; they are hitting your arm.\u00a0 The two are different.\u00a0 You find out that your emotions are not your life force…emotions go up and down and get upset and get frightened and insecure and all of that.\u00a0 But that is not the life force.\u00a0 You get to know that the mind schemes and plans and doubts and gets confused — and that is not the life force.\u00a0 You know that your body plays lots of games, sees other bodies and gets interested in a sexual expression and relationship…and you know that that is not your life force.\u00a0 That’s not really you.<\/p>\n You come from a lot of centers and you experience a lot of energies, which sometimes masquerade as the life force.\u00a0 And you can come from several centers at one time; the focus of the energy also may shift from one center to the other.\u00a0 And if you can express from more than one at the same time, or if they can shift and change, you must know that no one of them is the life force within you.\u00a0 And when you look for what each center has in common with all the others, the answer is Spirit.\u00a0 That’s the “something more\u201d that pervades all other levels, and that is your life force.\u00a0 It’s Spirit.\u00a0 It is your divine creativity.\u00a0 It’s the most subtle thing within you and it is the most real.<\/p>\n In my work with you, I bring to you an experience of the life force within you.\u00a0 I bring a Light force into your consciousness and, with that, awaken the life force within you which recognizes the Spirit and responds to that.\u00a0 That’s the “lift\u201d\u00a0 you so often feel when you are involved with the teachings of the Traveler.\u00a0 That’s the level that I teach to.\u00a0 You feel the stirring of the life force within you.\u00a0 It’s not necessarily the stirring of the imagination or the mind or the emotions, which is why you sometimes have such a difficult time explaining the Movement to your friends.\u00a0 It’s not a process of the intellect or the emotions or the physical body.\u00a0 It’s a stirring of the Soul within you, which recognizes the Spirit within the teachings and responds in joy.<\/p>\n How do I help you to awaken to the Spirit within you, to your own life force?\u00a0 I’ll do it however I can.\u00a0 One of the ways that I awaken you to your own life force is to help you past the illusions of the lower levels that cloud your awareness of Spirit.\u00a0 Sometimes you have gotten caught up in the illusion that your happiness is based on someone else’s behavior, and then I will use my behavior to break that crystallization for you.\u00a0 If you seek my approval, I may withhold that, so that you can become aware that your life force continues on, whether or not I give my approval.\u00a0 Sometimes I ignore people, and I know that it can almost destroy them.\u00a0 But, the word “almost\u201d is the key because my inattention to them does not destroy them, and I have the ability to make my love felt — even when outwardly I appear not to be aware of them — so that they awaken to their own love for themselves, and that becomes their strength.<\/p>\n You are much more than your mind or emotions.\u00a0 Have you ever been in a situation where you said: “I can never get through this?\u201d\u00a0 I’m sure you have.\u00a0 And you got through it.\u00a0 That life force, that Spirit within, goes on.\u00a0 The faster you can break through the illusions that block your awareness of the Spirit, the faster you will find yourself living in joy and in freedom.\u00a0 When you keep coming back to the truth of a situation, you will find that it will start clearing for you.\u00a0 You may get stuck temporarily in a situation, but if you keep coming back to the truth of what it is, you’ll find your solution.<\/p>\n There are certain dynamics that I have been teaching, and they can be valuable guidelines for you.\u00a0 If you find yourself experiencing confusion or doubt or despair or upset emotions, you have a lot of keys to look for.\u00a0 You can ask yourself: \u201cIs this a time of testing?\u00a0 Is there something I am to learn from this situation?\u201d\u00a0 You can look to see if it is an old pattern repeating itself, and you can look to see if the “problem\u201d comes from the mind or the emotions or the imagination or the unconscious.\u00a0 And if it’s a repeating pattern, you can look for the lessons to be learned within that.\u00a0 You can ask yourself if this is the law of reversibility coming back to you…and, if it is, you know that you can just hold steady through that and it will lift in its own timing.\u00a0 You can evaluate how you are handling this situation in comparison to how you night have handled it a year ago or two years ago or five years ago.\u00a0 Sometimes that’s a great way to see your own progress.\u00a0 And even if a situation is difficult, if you can see your own growth, you may feel very good about it.<\/p>\n Sometimes you’ll be involved in a pattern, and you’ll start becoming aware that it’s not a positive pattern for you.\u00a0 You’ll look at it and evaluate it, and the answer you’ll come up with was that it was just \u201cmess around time.\u201d\u00a0 That may not seem like it has a lot of cosmic significance, but it may be very accurate.\u00a0 And if that’s what it is, label it as that, and be honest about it.\u00a0 Own up to the fact that some of your life’s expression might not have any spiritual significance or great cosmic meaning.\u00a0 It will just be “mess-around time.\u201d\u00a0 That’s okay…that’s part of the life force expressing itself on this level.<\/p>\n The life force, however, is ethical and will not harm or hurt another life force.\u00a0 So if you are involved in anything harmful, that is not the life force, the Spirit within, expressing itself.\u00a0 If you hurt someone, that’s not your life force doing it; it may be a karmic memory coming forward to be cleared.<\/p>\n There are elements of the personality that will become caught up in the negative aspects of life, and those provide you with reference points for your own growth and progression.\u00a0 Those are the signposts for your physical\/material world.\u00a0 Sometimes people ask me to tell them how they’re doing.\u00a0 If you have that question, I can give you the formula for answering it yourself.\u00a0 Spiritually, you are always doing fine.\u00a0 And physically, if you want to know how you are doing, pay attention to yourself and to your life.\u00a0 You have your own physical reference points, and you don’t need anyone to tell you.\u00a0 You always know how you are doing.\u00a0 You may not know how you are doing over the long run, but if you ask yourself how your day was today, you’ll have an answer.\u00a0 You know whether it was okay or great or terrible or happy, etc.\u00a0 You always know.\u00a0 If you find that you are getting in the same hassles week after week after week after year, that’s your reference point.\u00a0 You’re stuck in a negative pattern, and you might consider using your life force to break you away from the rut.<\/p>\n When you work with the Mystical Traveler, he places energy with you, from the higher realms of Light, from the realms of pure Spirit, from the life force to which you are connected.\u00a0 That boost of spiritual energy can connect you to your life force in a more conscious and specific way, and can start all sorts of changes happening in your life.\u00a0 You put your job in the Light, and you are suddenly expressing your life force through that job and all sorts of amazing changes may start taking place.\u00a0 You put your relationship into the Light, and that opens the way to bring spiritual energies into that relationship, and you suddenly find yourself side able to give and receive so much more love than you ever were aware of before.<\/p>\n When you tap into your life force, you find yourself flowing with your life plan and you find yourself moving out of and into all the proper situations.\u00a0 And, not only that, but you find yourself in tune with the life force of other people you come into contact with so that you work in harmony with them, rather than in conflict with them.\u00a0 If you do experience a difference of opinion with someone, you’ll be able to discuss the difference lovingly.\u00a0 When you break the life force of another individual, you break part of your own life force, because on that level we are all connected to the one life force and there is no separation.<\/p>\n When you are flowing from the center of your life force into the world, you will find that you bypass the greed and the lust and the avarice and all the negative, aspects of the ego personality; and you will find yourself loving yourself and all others around you.\u00a0 Love is the dynamo of your life force…it is the power source.\u00a0 And I love you because you are also love, because you are life, because you are.<\/p>\n God bless you all.<\/p>\n Baruch Bashan.<\/p>\n WATCH A SHORT VIDEO WITH JOHN-ROGER<\/strong>
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