posted April 21, 2004 01:40 PM         

For those of you who have waited so patiently for this final piece of the puzzle, my apologies and thank you for your patience and understanding. I hope that you will bear with me as this post is completed, for its depth and scope are only just now TRULY being revealed. (And that is happening in little starts and spurts.) So that none of us will wait any longer than necessary, let's begin with what is known and we'll continue revising this piece as it comes.

In the previous posts, we covered three basic concepts. The first is that what we believe is not necessarily what is true. To the contrary, what we believe has been more of a detriment than an aid to our ability to perceive the reality of existence. Moving on, we covered the nature of our existence, of the fate of everything in the universe; a time to be, followed by a return to its source. All things return to the source from whence they came. Thus, the seas return to their mountaintops and springs and the snow melts, springs run, to the rivers then back to the sea. All living things on Earth return to the Earth from whence they came. We are no exception...we must return to our source, but in our case, we are offered an optional route to that source. This route is in an upward direction. A return to our source through evolution.

Finally, in the last post, a story was told that attempted to illustrate that an ability to choose our course is built into this human existence. Freewill is our gift, a gift unique, so far as we know, in all of Creation. As well, a Truth was revealed. A VERY difficult Truth to wrap one's mind around, to be sure, but a Truth nonetheless: there is only God, regardless of the appearance of things. (Recall the first post? "Perception is not reality.") In the last post, it is suggested that we are to be witnesses to the Creation.

In this post, we will attempt to delve into the final question posed by "Of Freewill."

Why? Why are we required as witnesses?

Let's start off with a very familiar question: "If a tree falls in the forest, and there is noone there to hear it..does it make a sound?"

Some would say "Yes" and some might say "No." But what are our reasons for saying Yes or No? For years, my own answer was Yes. The reasoning was that vibrations in the air would be created regardless. See, I thought that entertaining the whole notion that reality is created in our minds was preposterous...and still do. However I was wrong, because the most correct answer to the question is "No." No there is no sound if noone hears it. Why? Because sound is not the vibrations created in the air, but the interpretation of those vibrations within the confines of a mind. The sound must be WITNESSED in order to be a sound.

Let's take this koan (seemingly meaningless, but actually quite meaningful question) a step further.

If the Creation unfolds, but its becoming is not perceived, is it beautiful?

The answer is similar. The beauty lies not with what it is, for indeed, it still is what it is. No, beauty lies with the perception of what it is.

At this point, I'm going to ask you to play a mental exercise with me. Understand, that although this is a mental exercise, it should be performed in the meditative state. In other words, it is a mental exercise to be performed without any mental exercise. Clear your mind of all thoughts and then let's all go to the movies.

So we're sitting in the theatre, watching this movie. The characters are so real, its amazing. The action seems so real that you're quickly sucked into the story, and yet, we know it's not real..right?

The curtain goes down and the lights come on and the movie is over. Although we may have identified with the characters (Titanic anyone?) we never identified with them so intensely that we thought they were real. They were maybe realistic, never real.

For the next part of this exercise, you're going to want to go for a walk. Make it around the block, to the store, whatever. Even feel free to wait until the next time you have a reason to go somewhere. (If you're a shut-in, don't despair...you can do this without leaving the house...but it helps to have some movement going on around you.)

To do this, you'll want to, once again, be in the meditative state. Be AWARE of what's going on around you, be a WITNESS to it. See the scene, but don't think about it. Hear things, but don't be affected by them. You're at the movies!

That's right, you're at the movies..watching the whole thing in stunning surround sound, intense 3d images and an incredible ability to sense things through touch and smell as well. (Smell-O-Vision?!) Is any of it real?

Not really, not from the perspective of Divine Perception.

It's all the unfolding of a Creation whose every nuance and movement, every happening was KNOWN prior to it's inception.

Just as there is a screenplay to a movie, so was everything "you" are watching right now KNOWN before it ever happened. "You" are watching the greatest play ever presented. We all are. But there is more..because didn't we mention something about freewill?

If everything was known, how can there be freewill? Well, let's experiment with that notion and find out.

Think about a key that you are going to press. Don't think about any other key. Just the one that you are going to press. Now reach for that key, start to press it..then press a completely different key! Or DON'T!

Did you just exercise freewill? I would say that you did. Yet, the final outcome of your decision was what determined what ultimately happened and THAT was what was meant to happen. It's a subtle paradox: Fate that takes into consideration freewill.

Yet the implications are even more profound than they might appear on the surface. Don't the decisions you make affect things around you? Don't your decisions have consequences and aren't those consequences felt in the universe around you? Certainly. That brings us to a most difficult and interesting paradox.

Let's go back to the movies for a second. Imagine that there is a scene in which the bad guy and the good guy are fighting. A bystander happens to kick the bad guy's gun out of the fight scene, and as a result the good guy easily overcomes the villian, subduing him. The consequences of the bystander's actions affected the outcome..right? Or did they? I mean he was just an actor and it's just a movie...right?

What if the actor playing the bystander decided that he didn't FEEL like kicking the gun? What if he was afraid it would go off and blow his toe off? Wouldn't the fight scene be changed by that decision? But it's STILL a movie and, from YOUR perspective, he's STILL just an actor.

Here's the most difficult realization of all: You are that actor! You aren't watching the unfolding of Creation, something else is. Something behind your mind, behind your eyes. You are as unreal as the rest of it. It's just a movie and the YOU of you is just a part of that movie. You are a part of God's creation, going through the motions. (But don't think for a second that this makes existence a pointless exercise. What would the movie look like if all of the actors decided to give up and sit down? No movie at all. You are playing a part...so PLAY it! With gusto!)

Shift your perspective now to the most difficult thing that your mind will ever do: releasing the self.

Get back in that "Matrix mode"; everything is unreal. It's fairly easy when you play the part of the audience. Now...realize that YOU TOO are unreal. That's the tough part. That's the kicker. See, you've identified with this actor so long and so intensely, that you've made him/her REAL. He/she isn't. It is the something behind that particular "you" which is really the audience in this whole play. There is only the curtain, the screen, the projector and the lamp within it. There are no people, no cars, no trees, no houses, no YOU. The screen is the universe. Energy is the projector. The lamp is matter and the curtain remains open for the duration of time. Noone in the theatre? No movie..even though the projector continues to run. If a projector projects filmed images onto a screen in the theatre and there is noone in the audience...

(This isn't quite over. There is still the matter of that rogue actor to contend with. Directors rarely have any use for actors that don't follow the script. Especially when there is no cutting room floor.)

This information is part of a four part series. The four posts are titled:

posted April 27, 2004 12:10 AM         

I am so glad you have shared with us again. The synchronicity of the universe always amazes me. I had a really rough week last week and words like this are just what I need to carry on. In fact, I had just finished reading a topic on another website and the correspondence between its words and yours is enlightening. It ended with the following quotation:

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One thing this voice in brazil said to me is “there’s really only one thing you really need to know….. Infinite love is the only truth and everything else is illusion.”

- From an interview by Nicole Whitney, www.newsforthesoul.com. You can listen to the entire interview on RealAudio at ]www.newsforthesoul.com/icke.htm

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